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 Action/Adventure: December 31, 1969 Issue [#3756] |
  Action/Adventure This week: Edited by: Sara♥Jean Dreams   More Newsletters By This Editor   1. About this Newsletter 2. A Word from our Sponsor 3. Letter from the Editor 4. Editor's Picks 5. A Word from Writing.Com 6. Ask & Answer 7. Removal instructions  Thank you so much for the opportunity to be your guest editor today! I have this great desire to be funny, and this particular newsletter is one that I've enjoyed reading since my first week here on WdC. As such, this is a great flip to the norm, and I'm very excited to be able to offer you some good reading, as well.  ~ Sara♥Jean Dreams    Know Your Audience When we all write a comedy piece, we (of course!) want it to be funny! As we well know, however, everyone finds different things to be amusing. This newsletter is going to focus on how to be at least a little more sure that your topic will amuse those you wish it to amuse. Who is your target audience? As with any kind of writing, you need to know who you are trying to target. Who do you want to speak to? Just as it would be inappropriate to use text-speak with an audience of college professors (CU l8r, alig8r!), it would not do much good to use gaming jargon (How about a little tankNspank?) when speaking to an audience of literary critics. When you know the audience you are trying to reach, you can better gear whatever you are writing, including the jokes, toward that particular audience. Are the amusing things in your item/article something this audience will understand/find funny? Just as I'm sure some of you may not have understood the terms I used above as examples, if your readers are unfamiliar with terms or jargon, they are simply not going to get the jokes. There are two ways to approach this: 1) Put a little explanation of each different term, or 2) change your jokes to those that this particular audience would be more able to relate to. Both are actually valid options - again, depending on what sort of audience you are trying to reach. Both also take a little bit of work. Putting an explanation of each term takes time and patience to make sure that you don't put more jargon within the jargon. Changing the jokes can be frustrating, especially when you really think a certain joke is funny, and you'd like to be able to use it even if the audience doesn't understand it. I ask you to remember, in both cases, that jokes aren't funny if you don't understand them, no matter how hilarious it is to people who do. If you are reaching out to a general audience, avoid jokes with a lot of technical jargon, period. General audiences are probably some of the most fun to write to. A good example of this might even be the movies put out by Disney (minus the puffs of air spelling out dirty words, or the misplaced body parts on castles, of course). Disney and Pixar have the amazing ability to create movies entertaining for both adults and children. How? Well, they reach toward a general audience. They put jokes in there for the children, and they put jokes in there for the adults. They aren't always understood by all parties at the same time - but there is entertainment for each age group. Unfortunately, this only makes the movies a teeny-tiny bit more tolerable to those of us who have to watch it fourty or fifty times before our children get tired of it. (NOT DONE!) 
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