When you write do you add in humour scenes? Even if its a serious book it can be taken from border line good to amazing just by adding some humor. The perfect examples of this are Iron man and Sherlock Holmes. Both deal with very serious subjects but what makes them stand out is their humor. Why do we love humor so much? Why is it so important? When you read a good book that has humor in it you often laugh out loud, an unconcious decision. This unwilling laughter may sound foolish to passerbys who see you sitting there laughing to yourself but it does wonders for your mental state releaving stress and making the reading experience enjoyable and playful. If you’ve had a stressful day you might pick up a book to relax but if that books is as tense as you are, it wont be enjoyable. Go ahead. Create tension. Then break it with some well placed humor;
your audience will love it!
June 5, 2013
laugh your worries away
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June 5th, 2013 at 8:46 pm
Thanks for your ‘Follow’ on my blog!!!:D
June 5th, 2013 at 8:59 pm
No problem it looked like something I would like.
June 5th, 2013 at 8:58 pm
May laughter fill the air!
June 5th, 2013 at 9:03 pm
I couldn’t agree more…I like the way you put it…who knows, maybe one of our stories will bring two strangers together, simply by an unexpected laugh…this old dog would love to see that happen…anyone seen Lucy?
June 5th, 2013 at 11:56 pm
oh wow.
now that Snoopy picture was Exactly what we needed.
delicious.
*wavingfromLA*
June 6th, 2013 at 12:09 am
LOL yes I thought it was cute.
June 6th, 2013 at 12:37 am
I love this little article. It is amazing how much humour can make or break a book for me. Maybe I am strange, but tossing in a little humour, even when the situation in a book is very tense, can keep me reading a book when it might not have really held my attention without it. There are no better times than when I am reading and suddenly break out laughing. It rounds out the personality of a book when done correctly, and makes me feel better about life, the universe, and everything (thanks to the memory of the the indomitable Douglas Adams, in my mind the king of well done humour)
June 6th, 2013 at 12:41 am
I agree! I read a book a while back that was all action and no humor. At the end of the book I was left unhappy with the ending and more stressed than I started. I want a book to take me away. Take me somewhere where life is exciting and comedic when real life can’t be!
June 6th, 2013 at 1:26 am
I have issues with writing and not adding humour to it. My wife often chastises me for not taking it serious enough and always spoiling those ‘d’aww moments’. I can’t help it, I love comedy too much.
June 6th, 2013 at 2:20 am
Laughter will get someone out of just about any mood their in! Consider it a public service to be a comedic, everyone needs you!
June 6th, 2013 at 3:11 pm
It’s not realistic to put a bunch of people in a book and then not them encounter comedic moments. And, for me, it’s realism that draws me into a book. I like my fantasy so real I have to duck, hide, and scream out loud while reading it, but I’ll never get that deep if the experience doesn’t include laughter.
June 6th, 2013 at 3:14 pm
Dang, dropped the word “have” in the first bloody sentence. 🙂
June 6th, 2013 at 3:20 pm
Yes! I’m trying to help a friend with their writing but they don’t seem able to understand that. Hence the ranting blog lol.
June 6th, 2013 at 4:29 pm
I hear you. Thankfully, Gibbering Gnome Press has two professional editors. BUT WHERE ARE THEY WHEN I’M POSTING!!! Obviously, I shouldn’t be allowed out in the wilds of the internet all on my lonesome. 😛
June 6th, 2013 at 4:40 pm
Lol. Well writers arn’t our own editors for a very good reason! We’d be horrible at it and our amazing books would be laughed at for all the misspellings and grammar issues.
June 6th, 2013 at 3:12 pm
It’s not realistic to put a bunch of people in a book and then not have them encounter comedic moments. And, for me, it’s realism that draws me into a book. I like my fantasy so real I have to duck, hide, and scream out loud while reading it, but I’ll never get that deep if the experience doesn’t include laughter.
June 6th, 2013 at 3:14 pm
There, that’s better.
June 6th, 2013 at 6:36 pm
Thanks for this! My blog was always full of humour until a couple of months ago when I decided to risk writing the occasional piece of mini-fiction. For some reason it’s all gone a bit dark! I always seem to need a nasty twist at the end or some such.
You’ve reminded me of the happy times – maybe it’s time to put the humour back in 🙂
June 6th, 2013 at 6:50 pm
Awww! I’m glad I could cheer you up!
June 7th, 2013 at 1:46 am
Humor is good in any venture.
June 7th, 2013 at 12:23 pm
I can’t think of a single book that I thought was made worse by ut but plenty that were made better!
June 7th, 2013 at 2:20 pm
I agree.
June 7th, 2013 at 2:07 pm
My books start out with humour but then they seem to get all serious as I get to know my characters and their problems better. I’ve been pondering this only today. Writing funny is really hard (well, for me, anyway.) A lot of writing advice says Conflict, conflict, conflict. It’s easy to forget that, even when the chips are down (or especially then) we need to remember to keep laughing.