Please give me tips on how can I make my story more interesting filled with lot of comedy.

[CopyMonarch]

https://www.scribblehub.com/series/526679/cheat-awakening/ ( My Story. )

 

[CopyMonarch]

Could anyone suggest me, how can I make my novel more funny?

 

[Puji-Maki]

Maybe write unexpected punchlines?

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

https://www.scribblehub.com/series/526679/cheat-awakening/ ( My Story. )

It has sex so I will not make comments on it.

 

[Dieter]

 

[Jamminrabbit]

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

Writing comedy is hard.

It's just as hard as writing good romance, but with far less reward and you need to know a lot of context of what make your audience and other people laugh in first place.

you may even need to know lots of romance and normal story experience to know what's funny and what not.

Just take a look at this scribble huh (unexpected pun) and tell me how many good comedy other than "Mob without system in Naruto world".

Even that one isn't going to be funny without proper knowledge of Naruto and the fanbase, and even then it grows less funny over time.

 

[Jemini]

When it comes to comedy in the written format, some of the easiest to leverage comedy is banter. That is, just having your characters make some remarks and giving each other a hard time in such a way that it makes the reader laugh.

The strength of banter is that it can be inserted into pretty much any genre of storytelling. The weakness of banter is that it does not work unless you have very well established characters that your audience already cares about and identifies with. In other words, it only works if your writing is already good without it.

Also, the strength of the banter is directly proportional to the strength of your characterization.

He Who Fights With Monsters is a series pretty well known for it's banter, quite likely one of the best in the web-novel space for it. So, that might be a good place to look for inspiration. The only problem with this example is that you need to warm up to the characters before the banter starts really getting good, and it's not until the 3rd major arc that it's good enough to have you laughing in stitches.

The second strongest form of written comedy is brought about by situational comedy and literary irony. (The two often go hand-in-hand.) Situational comedy is usually a case where you make your characters uncomfortable for comedic effect. This is a form of comedy most effective in drama and slice-of-life stories, and one of the best uses of it I've seen is in Ascendance of a Bookworm.

The things to look out for with situational comedy are that you need to have your audience sympathies with the character in order for it to work, and the audience needs to be able to really buy that character's sense of embarrassment and discomfort. The reason it worked so well in Ascendance of a Bookworm is because it had so many serious characters in serious scenarios that just a little social embarrassment was enough to really make you as the reader feel their cringe.

 

[Lloyd]

Add surprise rape and ntr

 

[CopyMonarch]

When it comes to comedy in the written format, some of the easiest to leverage comedy is banter. That is, just having your characters make some remarks and giving each other a hard time in such a way that it makes the reader laugh.

The strength of banter is that it can be inserted into pretty much any genre of storytelling. The weakness of banter is that it does not work unless you have very well established characters that your audience already cares about and identifies with. In other words, it only works if your writing is already good without it.

Also, the strength of the banter is directly proportional to the strength of your characterization.

He Who Fights With Monsters is a series pretty well known for it's banter, quite likely one of the best in the web-novel space for it. So, that might be a good place to look for inspiration. The only problem with this example is that you need to warm up to the characters before the banter starts really getting good, and it's not until the 3rd major arc that it's good enough to have you laughing in stitches.

The second strongest form of written comedy is brought about by situational comedy and literary irony. (The two often go hand-in-hand.) Situational comedy is usually a case where you make your characters uncomfortable for comedic effect. This is a form of comedy most effective in drama and slice-of-life stories, and one of the best uses of it I've seen is in Ascendance of a Bookworm.

The things to look out for with situational comedy are that you need to have your audience sympathies with the character in order for it to work, and the audience needs to be able to really buy that character's sense of embarrassment and discomfort. The reason it worked so well in Ascendance of a Bookworm is because it had so many serious characters in serious scenarios that just a little social embarrassment was enough to really make you as the reader feel their cringe.

Thanks you very much for your time and such a beautiful explanation.

 

[Jemini]

Thanks you very much for your time and such a beautiful explanation.

Oh, I should probably add one thing about situational comedy. If you are writing smut, sex-related "uncomfortable scenarios" do not work. Such scenarios are only funny in non-smut works. The reason for this is because the mere presence of smut completely desensitizes the reader to any form of discomfort that would be brought about by sex-related embarrassment. So, if you're going to use situational comedy in a smut series, the embarrassment for the situational comedy needs to come from something non-sexual.

(This is one of the major weaknesses of smut. It actually ham-strings itself by crippling one of the easiest go-to things to use with situational comedy.)

 

[Deleted member 68927]

Don't force the reactions of the characters just to write comedy. Don't show them out of character, either. If the scene aligns with your character's personalities, then you will have good comedy. (People tent to say my stories are funny, and this is my formula. That said, there are other ways to write comedy. Others will have to share them with you.)