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I am on a quest to write the most ridiculous story in existence.




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The main problem with this is that it isn't funny. Its ridiculous, yeah, but eventually you hit a point where a lack of cohesion turns something from 'ridiculous' to 'random jumble of phrases'. The overuse of caps makes it feel like it's screaming at me every half second in an attempt to get a cheap chuckle, there's no sense of comedic timing and no context for humor since all the characters are bereft of even one-dimensional character traits... yeah, it ain't working for me.

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The main problem with this is that it isn't funny. Its ridiculous, yeah, but eventually you hit a point where a lack of cohesion turns something from 'ridiculous' to 'random jumble of phrases'. The overuse of caps makes it feel like it's screaming at me every half second in an attempt to get a cheap chuckle, there's no sense of comedic timing and no context for humor since all the characters are bereft of even one-dimensional character traits... yeah, it ain't working for me.


Points taken. Will work on it.

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I am on a quest to write the most ridiculous story in existence.

As opposed to a good story? Nah but seriously, this story is awful.

I don't know when YCM, or stupid internet people in general, ever got the idea that a bad story and a funny story were synonymous. They're not.

You remember everything you learned about creating a plot and developing characters and world building and stuff? That doesn't all suddenly go out the door when you're writing a humerous story. In fact, it needs to be further emphasized. Because you're dealing with absurd people, or absurd situations, you must explain the internal reasons for why they do the peculiar things that they do.

For example, the first chapter. We have some 4 a******s we don't care about trying to break down a wall. But we're never really given a reason for it. Hell, even having something as simple as "Why?" "Why not?" Would at least add some bit of layer to King Crouton's I-don't-give-a-[frog] attitude.

So anyway, I also find it peculiar that none of the characters really... seem to have any characteristics. If you completely scrambled who said what, the entirety of the first chapter would read largely the same. Like, I dunno. I figure the way King Crouton treat Jellybean should be very notably different from the way he treats Waffle and Platypus. Likewise with all the others amongst themselves.

So then we get to the narration. The whole narrating "joke" thing doesn't work. I think maybe you saw it in a movie or TV show where there was a narrator and then the other characters called him out on it and it was HILARIOUS! but in this case, it just falls flat. It makes more sense when you have two modes of seeing what a character is doing, like watching actions as well as reading about them, but since all we have is the narrator, it all falls flat.

Secondly, you missed what could have been a real comedic gold mine there. Have the narrator announce stupid crap to piss off King Crouton and have it happen (or have them obstinately deny or try to fight fate or something). But since all we know about the story is what he's narrating, it still kind of falls flat. Make his narrations in quotations or something? Or make it a play? That's really the only way I can see the narrating joke continue, but even then... it's not that great of a joke anyway.

And then I kind of tuned out for the rest of the first chapter (and I think you did too since it gets really, really poorly written). I didn't read the other three because shut up.

Basically, your characters can still be stupid a******s or whatever, they just have to follow some internal logic or something, and have some bit more of a characterization.

I find my self constantly quoting that old Red Letter Media Star Wars review, but to paraphrase, the reviewer asked his buddies to describe a character in Star Wars without describing what they looked like, what they wore, or what their role in the movie was. Describe them like you're telling it to someone who aint never seen Star Wars. And they came up with plenty for Han Solo (suave, ladies man, playboy) and C3PO (prissy, uptight) but they struggled to find words for Queen Amadala and Qui Gon Jinn (both from the first movie).

Basically, if you readers finish the story and can't describe the character, then you've failed as an author.

tl;dr - It's bad, in a so bad it's horrible way. Stop writing please.

YCM, in a nutshell:

 

 

 
 
 
 

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As opposed to a good story? Nah but seriously, this story is awful.

I don't know when YCM, or stupid internet people in general, ever got the idea that a bad story and a funny story were synonymous. They're not.

You remember everything you learned about creating a plot and developing characters and world building and stuff? That doesn't all suddenly go out the door when you're writing a humerous story. In fact, it needs to be further emphasized. Because you're dealing with absurd people, or absurd situations, you must explain the internal reasons for why they do the peculiar things that they do.

For example, the first chapter. We have some 4 a******s we don't care about trying to break down a wall. But we're never really given a reason for it. Hell, even having something as simple as "Why?" "Why not?" Would at least add some bit of layer to King Crouton's I-don't-give-a-[frog] attitude.

So anyway, I also find it peculiar that none of the characters really... seem to have any characteristics. If you completely scrambled who said what, the entirety of the first chapter would read largely the same. Like, I dunno. I figure the way King Crouton treat Jellybean should be very notably different from the way he treats Waffle and Platypus. Likewise with all the others amongst themselves.

So then we get to the narration. The whole narrating "joke" thing doesn't work. I think maybe you saw it in a movie or TV show where there was a narrator and then the other characters called him out on it and it was HILARIOUS! but in this case, it just falls flat. It makes more sense when you have two modes of seeing what a character is doing, like watching actions as well as reading about them, but since all we have is the narrator, it all falls flat.

Secondly, you missed what could have been a real comedic gold mine there. Have the narrator announce stupid crap to piss off King Crouton and have it happen (or have them obstinately deny or try to fight fate or something). But since all we know about the story is what he's narrating, it still kind of falls flat. Make his narrations in quotations or something? Or make it a play? That's really the only way I can see the narrating joke continue, but even then... it's not that great of a joke anyway.

And then I kind of tuned out for the rest of the first chapter (and I think you did too since it gets really, really poorly written). I didn't read the other three because shut up.

Basically, your characters can still be stupid a******s or whatever, they just have to follow some internal logic or something, and have some bit more of a characterization.

I find my self constantly quoting that old Red Letter Media Star Wars review, but to paraphrase, the reviewer asked his buddies to describe a character in Star Wars without describing what they looked like, what they wore, or what their role in the movie was. Describe them like you're telling it to someone who aint never seen Star Wars. And they came up with plenty for Han Solo (suave, ladies man, playboy) and C3PO (prissy, uptight) but they struggled to find words for Queen Amadala and Qui Gon Jinn (both from the first movie).

Basically, if you readers finish the story and can't describe the character, then you've failed as an author.

tl;dr - It's bad, in a so bad it's horrible way. Stop writing please.


Thank you so much for the critique. I've really been looking for suggestions.

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