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I’ve received the third draft from Robert A Vollrath that I now will transform into the forth, and hopefully final draft.
We had e-mailed back and forth about the changes I had made between his first draft and my second and one thing that I had removed without real intention was the humor.
I considered the lines in question unnecessary, misplaced or simply not funny. I didn’t think about this very serious story as a story with one-line jokes. Not that I deliberately said to myself that I would take out all the funny moments, I just didn’t see that this, and this, and this, fitted the story.
When I read it now, with the humor back in place, I realize how wrong I was.
And I am surprised and almost chocked that I didn’t see the importance of the funny moments. Am I not the one who hates dark and depressive movies, despising the lack of mood lifters in the dark hours?
Me of all persons remove the so vital humor.
Jokes and fun help us surviving our dark hours. Even Schindler’s List has moments of fun.
5 comments:
I don't think the jokes are funny but the fact that I was making jokes in the middle of a stroke was funny.
There is humor that is cruel or mocking and then there is humor that is a form of bravery. Sometimes humor is all you have left.
Exactly! Humor is vital for us to survive mentally. We make jokes when something is depressing and dark to help us get passed in one piece.
When we get really depressed is when we no longer can joke about the situation.
You both are right, with humor one can enlighten his situation and it can cause some relief without losing the darkness of the moment. Humor is indeed vital although you have to be careful in exagerating in the amount of humor you put into your story.
Great point of view!
and a joke sometimes can be used to drive home a point or make a moment more poignant
@This Makes My Day: Yes, if it is a dark story one has to be careful not to have too much humor, but no humor at all is worse I think.
@louisebah: Interesting point, but I think you are right.
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