Saturday, August 25, 2012

How To Write Comedy Play Scripts Effectively

By Rosa Koch


Like any other forms of writing, it takes a lot of patience and practice to write comedy play scripts. Fun ideas do just easily come to all people. There are those who can do it right the first time, while there are some who have difficulty in doing it right.

You can do it perfectly fine if you just follow simple rules that one must observe. The first thing that you need to determine is the kind of joke that you really want to impose. It is important that you just focus on one kind so you can avoid confusion. It will just hinder your audience to enjoy the story.

Keep in mind that most comedies are rooted in the principle of reversal. It means that you have to anticipate what the audience may expect in the story and then subvert it for a bigger laugh. This is considered as the most important element of the story you are about to write.

Novice writers usually fail at giving specific details of things that are supposed to be funny. When you are mentioning a kind of thing that has a general type, it would be more effective if you just mention a specific type of that being. It you want to mention dog, it would be a lot better if you state a specific breed.

The location of your story must also be written specifically. You have to incorporate ideas about things that the characters of your story can play with. Instead of saying that it just happened in a building, you can specify which part of the building it really happened. Sometimes the most ironic ones are very effective.

It is also important to remember that not all funny jokes are fun when they are all incorporated at once. Despite the laugh that a certain joke may give you, there are limitations on how you can use it. If it is not effective in the scene, you should not include it.

A good way of telling that comedy play scripts are effective is when you have some people act it out for you. Hearing the script being said out loud will help you develop a new perspective on it. It is also better if you do it along with someone that you trust.




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