How to write Comedy Characters

✍ Scribed by Paul Milham

• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 35
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How to write Comedy Characters is a guide to the professional practices needed to set up a television sitcom or sketch show written by a commissioned sitcom writer. Using personal stories from the industry, entertaining and insightful techniques as well as exercises, a range of case studies and helpful examples this book will assist you in...

- finding inspiration for amazing comedy characters.
- adding layers and dimension to your characters as well as giving them longevity.
- setting up your characters to produce jokes with minimal effort.
- using various exercises to help you to get to know your characters at an intimate level.
- beating writer's block and the need for redrafting by ensuring that you make the right choices before you put pen to paper.

Writing jokes is a serious business. Producers and commissioners looking for the next big thing are easily put off by characters that feel inconsistent or unremarkable. By putting in the effort in character construction early on you will put yourself miles ahead of the competition and get your script noticed. This book will give you the know how. Paul has over ten years experience in writing and is now sharing his secrets gained from his time as a commissioned sitcom writer. His methods are fun, engaging, often challenging and written with passion and expertise.

“What Paul did for my writing and comedy characters has been amazing. His industry experience has given me a step by step recipe for creating amazing comedic characters. After taking his course and using his development services I was able to take my ideas, which existed as notes on paper, and turn them into a script and then a filmed pilot sketch show. Absolutely no chance this could have been done without Paul’s one to one mentoring and advice.”

Ryan McCrostie, London