I cant limit myself to one wip at a time as if I try to write something serious the urge to have my characters become sarcastic grows and grows. To counter this I tend to have a humour wip on the go for when the urge to make wisecracks becomes too great.
My current wip is bordering on the absurd but I don't want it to be ridiculous. I have a number of races that each exagerate human characteristics and a lot of my alledged humour is coming from culture clashes.
One of my races takes itself very seriously. They're arrogant, patronising and are about to start a war. They're pretty humourless, humour from this race needs to come from their actions and their society, not from the comments of the race themselves. This is leaving me with some dialogue heavy scenes with very little humour. I need the scenes to progress the plot as almost every event in the story is a reaction to the actions of this race.
Any attempts to add any form of humour except sarcasm or mockery to this races' dialogue tends to make them resemble Mr Bean (who I would happily hunt down and kill) They know exactly what they're doing. They just feel superior enough to think they're right.
My question is can an alledged humour novel get away with scenes that might be up to 2000 words that are much lighter on humour than the rest of the book?
Craig
My current wip is bordering on the absurd but I don't want it to be ridiculous. I have a number of races that each exagerate human characteristics and a lot of my alledged humour is coming from culture clashes.
One of my races takes itself very seriously. They're arrogant, patronising and are about to start a war. They're pretty humourless, humour from this race needs to come from their actions and their society, not from the comments of the race themselves. This is leaving me with some dialogue heavy scenes with very little humour. I need the scenes to progress the plot as almost every event in the story is a reaction to the actions of this race.
Any attempts to add any form of humour except sarcasm or mockery to this races' dialogue tends to make them resemble Mr Bean (who I would happily hunt down and kill) They know exactly what they're doing. They just feel superior enough to think they're right.
My question is can an alledged humour novel get away with scenes that might be up to 2000 words that are much lighter on humour than the rest of the book?
Craig
