How to Frame the Structure While Writing Funny Stories?
Narrating or writing stories becomes more interesting when it is full of comical elements. You might have thought of delivering one of the best comic stories ever between your groups of friends or you are planning to make comedy storytelling as your profession. But on the grounds, the reality is slightly different. A proper framing of a comedy story is very essential and down below there are steps mentioned on how to structure a comedy story while writing and delivering it.
5 Steps on How You Should Frame and Deliver a Funny Story
Framing is done to avoid any kind of embarrassment while delivering a funny story and there are primarily five steps to frame and deliver a funny story.
- Select A Good Material To Tell
Any story can be made funny as everything depends on how you deliver it and how the listeners are reacting to it. What's on your hand is to select a good material for your story that is relatable, meaningful, and unexpected to the listeners. You can choose information from your past that might sound funny or you can make a funny funny stories by using your imagination.
- Figure Out Your Setup
After you select a funny material for your story, the next stage is to prepare yourself with how you will narrate it completely. For this, you can provide the listeners with a summary of the background of a story. Do not plan to go too deep into the past of your story by providing the listeners with a boring topic, plan to deliver your story's main information as soon as possible.
- Include Punchlines In Your Story
It is very essential that you include a number of punchlines in your story. By adding them, your story will look more attractive to listen to. Delivering the punchlines in an accurate manner is very necessary, as it is one of the main elements of writing and telling the story.
- Regularly Practice Narrating The Complete Story
In order to avoid any kind of difficulty while narrating the story, you should practice speaking and telling the story numerous times. You can practice speaking it by regularly narrating the whole story in front of a mirror or you can also record your video or audio on any device to see the mistakes you are making.
- Deliver Or Narrate The Story
The final step after framing and practicing speaking the story is to deliver it to the listeners. It is very important that you keep in mind certain things related to it. Try to be confident and brief about the story delivering it in a natural way. Do not forget to use your hands while you narrate the story while making eye contact with the listeners. To make things even better, try ending your story with a big laugh.
Conclusion
One thing that you should always remember is that if no one reacts to your story in the way you expected, you should not lose hope or stop trying. But if you follow the steps given above very accurately, then you will not face any such difficulties while narrating and you will end up delivering one of the best comic stories ever.
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