Yes, please! I like to think I have a passing skill at comedic writing, but it does take work! I'd love to hear what you have to say, because you write so well!
And then can you do Angst? Because a lot of the time I write what I think is horrible angst, and people reply with 'Oh, that was cute!' Which horrifies me, but obviously the problem lies with me.
Eep! Angst? Hm... Ooh... I think I like that idea, yes. I think there's a lot of people who're a lot better at angst than me, and who've probably given that subject a lot more thought than I have, but I shall provide my views as a starting point.
I swear, I used to hate writing essays when I had to, but now I don't have to, I'm loving it. It's a great exercise for getting all my thoughts in some kind of order. Because my head is all over the place, so writing it down is forcing me to think stuff through, think about why I look at things in a certain way, or do things in a certain way, or like/dislike certain things, and draw some logical conclusions. i.e. I'm not right in the head. *g*
Haa! Every time I think about writing essays, I think of school, and how I didn't much mind writing them, but I'd never use contractions because then you could pad the word count and reach the goal faster. :D
I think comedy and angst are actually two of the most difficult categories to get right. I think it comes very natural to some, but most run into problems now and again. And I think some discussion would only help! :)
:) Oh, eep, yes, I remember doing that. I had a Big Important final essay once for which I simply couldn't think of one more thing to say, so I went through and changed all the contractions, and just scraped over the wordcount. Heh.
I think angst definitely deserves a look at, too - I think all this comes from Annerb's post recently about the angst people coming down against fluff, or vice versa, I forget the details, but I started feeling all defensive about fluff, and then realised that a) I wasn't being attacked, so I should chill the hell out, and b) I don't necessarily want to defend fluff. Comedy is a different thing to fluff, and IMO works best with elements of tragedy in it. So then I got all thinky.
Aaaaand I'm going to save this for my comedy meta, but yes to the difficulty of both. :D
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And then can you do Angst? Because a lot of the time I write what I think is horrible angst, and people reply with 'Oh, that was cute!' Which horrifies me, but obviously the problem lies with me.
I swear, I used to hate writing essays when I had to, but now I don't have to, I'm loving it. It's a great exercise for getting all my thoughts in some kind of order. Because my head is all over the place, so writing it down is forcing me to think stuff through, think about why I look at things in a certain way, or do things in a certain way, or like/dislike certain things, and draw some logical conclusions. i.e. I'm not right in the head. *g*
I think comedy and angst are actually two of the most difficult categories to get right. I think it comes very natural to some, but most run into problems now and again. And I think some discussion would only help! :)
I think angst definitely deserves a look at, too - I think all this comes from Annerb's post recently about the angst people coming down against fluff, or vice versa, I forget the details, but I started feeling all defensive about fluff, and then realised that a) I wasn't being attacked, so I should chill the hell out, and b) I don't necessarily want to defend fluff. Comedy is a different thing to fluff, and IMO works best with elements of tragedy in it. So then I got all thinky.
Aaaaand I'm going to save this for my comedy meta, but yes to the difficulty of both. :D