Must be funny.

[apollinav]

I must be funny.  Brilliant happy funny.

How the hell am I going to manage this?

It started with the realization that Ch 23 is absurdly short.  Then realizing that four straight moody/broody and slightly depressing chapters wear heavily on the fic.  Funny needs to be thrown in there.  A little levity to break things up. 

I can do funny.  I think I can do funny.  Emphasis on the 'think.'    But funny usually takes place when I'm not trying to be funny.  Monday I sat down to remedy the problem... and wrote something decidedly NOT funny.  Fuck.  It's still short.  I have to try harder to be funny.  Yes, that's it.

Damn it.

At least I have a prompt already written in the chapter to bounce off of : Snape with a Slinky.  That ought to be funny, but I haven't been able to manage anything even close.

My one consolation is that if I can't manage funny I might be able to throw in some decent limes.  It seems at any point in time, smut is always appreciated.



Oh... and the chapter needs to be posted by Friday.  No pressure.  No, none at all.


I can only imagine I'll be asking Christev20, my beta, to look at something last minute.  She is going to kill me.  No, she probably won't because she's a ridiculously nice person.  But she really ought to kill me.


Does anyone have any thoughts/advice?  How 'bout ideas for Snape with a Slinky?

Comments

[miamadwyn.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure you need funny. I mean, sometimes I have a feeling in my gut and I just know "this needs to be funny" and then deal with that because I believe it deep inside the part of me that actually does the creating. (Um, so now I'm claiming my gut creates my fanfic. Well that explains too much, doesn't it?)

Anyway, if this is an analytical, arbitrary "ooops, need funny" I'm not sure you're right. If this is a "I know deep inside that the next moment needs to be funny in order to express my creative vision," then that's different.

How Muggle is he? Has he ever had a slinky before, seen one? Or would he be pondering what hidden motives she had for giving him this thing, and trying to figure out its purpose?

[chillit.livejournal.com]

Yes! I agree!! Figuring out the purpose of a slinky could be rather funny ;) LOL Unless he tosses it against the wall due to frustration ;)

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but ideally the author shouldn't get bloody depressed by the story. There's a tip off that things aren't going in your favor. I dunno. I guess it just seems lackluster to me at the moment, and I'm not proud to post it.

In the early part of the chapter he asks her what a slinky is as part of a short conversation and she says she'll bring him one. That's probably what I need to write.