I'm going to be aiming at comedy (although a little grim) with my script but I have a feeling it might turn into either dark comedy or even tragedy. How important is it to aim for one or the other vs just letting it flow and seeing what comes out?

Cynthia

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This is my first time trying scriptfrenzy.

I'm all for letting the flow take over. Write the story as it wants to tell itself.

Really, comedy is tragedy. It's just about perspective.

Yeah, flow, especially since you're new to this. You don't know what your potential is or what you're good at, so definitely let Nature take over.

Thanks Deli and everyone however I'm pretty sure what my 'potential' is. LOL

Go mad and just see what happens!

Yeah, I'm going to second this.
Tragedy is when a giant flounder falls out of the sky, lands on your head and kills you.
Comedy is when a giant flounder falls out of the sky, lands on your next door neighbor and kills them.
I would like to point out what Irony would be, but I can't quite figure that one out right at this moment.

I'm all for tragi-comedy. The blacker the humor, the better. The best is if I laugh really really hard and immediately feel bad about laughing but keep laughing anyway. I say if you instinctively write dark comedy, run with it. I think it's not quite so much of a social taboo anymore so you can really get away with murder (no pun intended).

I suppose irony would be when a giant flounder falls of out of the sky, hitting on the head and killing a man who has devoted his life to the rights of giant flounders to fall out of the sky and land on peoples heads.

I can put that in much better terms.

Comedy is when bad things happen to good people.
Tragedy is when bad things happen to people who deserve it.

See:
There's Something About Mary (bad things, good people)
MacBeth (bad things, bad people)

Well....True tragedy is when the hero gets creamed through their own virtues...

Our script will be comedy, so very comedy that it ought to be coming back in the opposite direction as tragedy. It was never an issue of what it would be.

I just hope that the world is ready for the comedy that is our script. That is, if the world doesn't end before we finish it. So for a quick heads up: if the world ends before Scriptfrenzy is over, it's because of us. *evil laughter*

Hello! This is my second Script Frenzy, and I'm writing a tragicomical musical. I'd say go with whatever works best. I just wrote a play that was originally going to be a humorous parody of a couple of cliches, but it wound up turning into a more serious drama with a bit of comedy thrown in. So don't force tragedy or comedy- just let them happen. Forcing either genre often leads to not funny moments and unintentionally funny moments.

A lot of this so called 'comedy is tragedy' stuff is just one form of comedy - slapstick comedy. Comedy doesn't always have to relate to tragedy.
But back to the topic. Letting it flow is good. If you set your mind early, it may cause difficulties later on, when you can't quite think of material to write. If you let it flow, you'll be more able to incorporate new ideas that you think of along the way.

Go with the flow. But it would be tragically funny when the bus that was going to hit the comic relief hits debris on the road, propelling itself in the air and spiraling itself over four lanes of traffic to hit the main character and explode in a fiery metal death trap.

Thanks everyone for all your help! Excellent stuf.

Cynthia
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Queen you're a sick puppy. hehehehehehehe

i think you should let it flow in its own direction according to the script or story, coz when you try to mold it intentionally, i'll seem like an artificial crafting, that's owkward :0
So try to b natural in creativity process :)

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