Dark Comedy or How To Do Snark In Your Writing Without Destroying Friendships, Your Reputation or Stinking up the Internet By Sherry Antonetti eatsleepwrite.net/darkcomedy via @EatSleepWriting Dark humor like dark chocolate, can overpower if not used with precision. Bringing the audience into your Tim Burton frame of mind such that they are along for the ride, rather than thinking all sharp objects in the room should be removed, is the trick. Begin with your position, whatever it is, you have to make it seem reasonable to the reader/audience so that whatever you plan to skewer, people will want to shish kabob with you. Be warned, if you single out a person in particular, the person has to be a known entity as awfulness incarnate to not draw natural sympathy from the reader for being singled out and insulted. So even if you have a particular beef with say, your boss, you need to recognize that your boss, however inhumane his demands upon your time might be, is still a human being. You have to veil your wrath just a touch, so that people don’t think maybe the problem is you. Make it generic, about all bosses, or make up fictional bosses or take a fictional boss and make them the real one in the situation. (If Darth Vader ran Walmart). READ THE REST ON eatsleepwrite.net/darkcomedy Eat Sleep Write Authors. Sharing. Conversations. Broaden your readership on Eat Sleep Write Submission Guidelines: eatsleepwrite.net/submissions Story Submissions:eatsleepwrite.net/submissions Poetry Submissions: eatsleepwrite.net/poetrysubmissions Advertising: eatsleepwrite.net/advertising Author Spotlight: EatSleepWrite.net/authorspotlight Twitter: https://twitter/EatSleepWriting Facebook: https://facebook/EatSleepWrite LinkedIn: linkedin/in/adamscull Wattpad: wattpad/user/EatSleepWriteDotNet Pinterest: pinterest/EatSleepWrite/
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