Build a Comedic Main Character (Holly Schindler)
Just in time for this month's humor theme...
I'm in the midst of rescuing my drawer manuscripts. Okay, in my case? My unpublished, unfinished manuscripts don't take up a drawer. They take up an entire corner of one room.
Yeah.
At any rate, I'm in the midst of working on a rom-com which I've written and rewritten about 750 times. Time time around, I'm taking the time to break the process down. To teach myself comedic writing.
And I'm writing about what I'm learning along the way. First up here? A writing resource on building a comedic main character. Not a sidekick. A comedic protagonist:
Are you a writer who assumes humor has to be innate? Either you were lucky enough to be born with a funny bone, or you were destined to write VERY SERIOUS DRAMA, right?
If you think that, well…the joke’s on you.
Turns out, comedy is a skill. Just like writing action or believable dialogue or realistic characters.
And one of the absolute best places to start writing comedy? By crafting a comedic main character. Not a buffoon. Not a clown. A real, three-dimensional comedic main character (not a sidekick) who drives the action and illuminates truths about human nature through…
Yep. You got it. Through laughs.
Think reading comedy is fun? It’s nothing compared to the joy of writing comedy. Laughing while drafting is my favorite writing experience…and I bet it’s about to be yours, too.
This resource is purposefully compact; at just over 5,000 words, you can easily read it in a single sitting and immediately begin building your character's comedic flaw, gap, wound, voice, and worldview. The resource is packed with actionable advice, prompts, examples, and exercises to make your characters real.
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