hi, this is @worstuser
i wanted to share some funny lines, about fiction brainstorming
maybe it will help you for your funny fictions, maybe not
it's me writing, not a copy-paste from where-ever
and as i'm sub-low-tier when it comes to write
maybe it will be a bit hard to read lol
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1. so when you're writing fictions, consider yourself an artist first - fiction is your product, to write text is your funny method, but you're an artist ... - ok so from nothing you become an artist, gg o/
2. then the reason of an artist is to make people have their funny reactions/emotions - so this is where you go learn about emotions (google some "wheel of emotions" and you're good) and where you choose your people (~your main target audience) - an error that some artists do is to consider themselves the main target audience, they write or draw because (first) they enjoy it, for their own pleasure, to get money (then) eventual target audience - but it should be (first) for your people (then) for you of course (ye imagine not enjoying what you're doing lol x__x ...) - different target audiences may lead to different products ... maybe your text for kids will differ from your text for perverts lol - exemples of audiences : kids, adults, boys, girls, friends, parents, this company workers, that city residents, aliens, animals, trees, etc ...
ye let's make trees have their funny reactions lol - you may choose a lead audience, but it's possible that other people read and have their funny reaction/emotion ... for exemple i'm sure there's (almost) 0% dudes being part of onepiece's main target audience here, (almost) all of you are
perverts over 15 years old lol.
3. then artists have some stuffs at their disposal ... tools, methods to materialize their funny art - this is where you learn about art and select art styles - in this thread it's about "writing fictions", so basically it's text ... words, letters, numbers, languages ... this post is a text, but suddenly i turn into a funny artist and ~j'écris en français comme ça tu as ta réaction marrante lol
(~i write in french so you have your funny reaction lol) ... - the skill level doesn't really matter, actually if you're a newbie or a low-tier in your art style, you can always claim you're learning or that it's done on purpose to drop funny reactions ... or admit that you're low-tier too lol, but remind that the original onepunch-man went popular despite its noob-tier visuals, so if you're noob-tier it doesn't mean that you can't.
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4. this is where the almighty creation starts - basically the first step is to select the main theme for your funny text - the simple way is to go with the job/hobby of the main character ... - an error that a lot of newbie do imo is to miss that point, so it turns into whatever ... - some exemples of themes in your favorite titles (maybe) : pirates (onepiece), martial artists (dragon ball), ninjas (naruto), wizards (harry potter), super heroes (batman), humans (neverland), etc... sometimes it's a bit hard to find out what the theme of a title is ... especially when there is no theme lol.
5. next you choose some funny rules for your fiction ... materialization rules i mean, not psychological rules lol ... when it comes to text it can be your tools to write texts, digital tools (computers and softwares) or traditional tools (paper, pens etc...) ... or exotic tools (ye let's say that suddenly you choose to write your funny fictions in caves or pyramids with your blood lol) ... - the space, how many pages, page sizes (caves sizes if exotic lol) etc... the language ... sentence rules maybe too, like a certain quantity of syllables by sentence or by text line ... stuffs like that
6. everyone's favorite part (imo) - *0* the creation of the universe *0* - characters, stages (or locations), items, power ups, events, stories, etc... sounds and silences in music, but it's about text here, so maybe you can create languages too ... the common error is to start with this verse creation immediatly, or to miss every previous points besides maybe point 4 (the theme selection) or another ... the universe should match with your main target audience - for exemple if you choose kids as your main target audience, maybe it's cool to put kids as main characters - then there may be their funny families, their funny neighboors, their funny school/theme/hobby friends and foes, etc... - add secondary themes can make things funnier - random exemple ~ main theme : ninja; secondary theme : hip hop; lead emotion : rage ... ... ...
ye now fear the rage of mister hip hop ninja, he's going to break dance in your face like a psycho lol ...
... next would be the lines about production, publication, fandom/results ... but enough for this post, it's already too long for me, i'm used to write short posts and jokes lol, i reached my limits at least 100 times, i'm finding an excuse to stop this now 8U
(edit) if you need funny ideas, secondary themes for your funny characters etc...
- List of Arts :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_arts
- List of Sports :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports
- List of Hobbies :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hobbies
- List of Jobs :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_occupations
- List of Subcultures :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_subcultures
- List of Animals :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_animals
- List of Music Styles :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_styles
- ...
I could list more lists lol but it's already a lot of stuffs to explore