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In this section of our website we have posted a variety of short funny stories. For lovers of stories and jokes, these funny stories are exactly what you need. It doesn’t take much time, it’s full of humor, and most importantly, it’s the only way to lift your spirits! Cool funny short stories are a kind of a joke, only they are usually taken from real life, and sometimes it is in such stories that the twisted plot or the degree of comedy gives such turns that you laugh without stopping for several minutes.
We hope these are short funny stories They will not only lift your spirits, but will also encourage you to write your own funny stories, of which every person has quite a few, if his memory is good. In any case, we will be glad to see you on the pages of our website one more time.
I remembered a story from my school childhood. There was a thin, weak amateur astronomer in our class, Andrei. Everyone who missed the mark had the honor of offending the calm and harmless “nerd.” Once during a physical education lesson (in the gym we had joint physical education, without separating men/women), the boys were doing pull-ups on the crossbar, and it was Andrei’s turn. The first bully of the class ran up from behind to the pulling up "nerd" and pulled down his pants along with his underpants... In complete silence, the girls' jaws slowly dropped, the boys got their first complexes... Nobody offended Andrei anymore.
I, like my older brother, am a former avid gamer. Only I always loved strategy games, and he loved adventure games. We went roller skating with him one day. He rushes ahead and says something, turning to me. Suddenly I see it going straight into the pit. Very deep. My then still childish brain couldn’t come up with anything better than to yell: “Space!!!” You know, he jumped...
There is a Kuka mineral spring in the Chita region. Naturally, the water from the source is bottled and sold. The name of the water is appropriate - “Kuka”... Late autumn. Two o'clock in the morning. A little-visited stall. Sleepy salesman (woman, 45 years old). Lonely buyer (male). The buyer, knocking on the window, waiting until it is opened, hands over ten rubles and says:
- Kuku!
The seller, not fully awake:
- Ku-Ku...
Buyer, insistently:
- KUKU!!!
Salesman:
- What, you were cuckooing at two o’clock in the morning?..
The ability to sell a product well is also an art. We went with some guys in China just to have dinner. Well, as usual, we decided to take one hundred grams. I approach the bartender:
- Three for a hundred! - And I lay out the money.
The bartender silently places three glasses and an unopened bottle of vodka on the counter.
- I asked for three for a hundred!
The guy’s answer at first plunged me into a state of mild euphoria, and then I realized that knowledge of Russian psychology increases the sales volume of people like him to the skies. He said:
- There will be some left, you can bring it back.
Well, how could she stay?
One day, the management of a large Western company decided to hold an attraction of unprecedented tolerance. Decided to organize a gay festival with representatives from all offices. An order came to the Russian office - to send 3 gays. Management thought hard. We called a meeting and started thinking. We came up with it. A decree was issued: the heads of three divisions that show the worst performance results for the current quarter will go to the gay pride parade. The company has never seen such production, sales, marketing, advertising, supply!..
At work, an employee says that her lover gave her a new gold chain, but she doesn’t know how to explain its appearance to her husband. Everyone starts giving advice: like, say that a friend gave it to her, she bought it herself, they gave her a bonus at work, etc. One man advises: - Better tell me what you found. My wife, for example, recently found a gold bracelet. The guy somehow didn’t immediately understand why everyone was suddenly giggling...
Dacha, grandmother and granddaughter drinking tea. There is jam on the table, with ants crawling towards it from different sides. The girl, without thinking twice, crushed one. The grandmother puts pressure on the child’s pity:
- Lizonka, what are you talking about, how is this possible?! The ants are also alive, they hurt! They have children! Just imagine: they are sitting at home and waiting for their mother. But mom won't come.
Lisa (crushing another insect with her finger):
- And dad won’t come either...
A friend got tired of texting until 1 am every day. I wrote a program for a smart phone that automatically responds to all SMS: “Yes, my love,” “of course,” “very,” etc. - in any order. In the morning I saw 264 incoming SMS. The last one at 5:45 with the text: “When will you, bitch, fall asleep?!”
In the 9th grade (children are 14-15 years old) a routine medical examination was carried out at school, including by a gynecologist. For many girls this was the first time: everyone’s knees were shaking. A lady gynecologist of Balzac's age, to save time, asks more questions than examines. The question is the same for all 60 girls from four classes:
- Are you sexually active?
- How many years? - if the answer is positive
The lady was pretty tired.
Actually the story: my friend (P), gathering her will into a fist, approaches her aunt (T).
(T) - are you alive?
(P) -zhiiiiivvuuu (shaking with fear, having forgotten the essence of the question)
(T) surprised - How old?
(P) almost crying - fourteen fourteen...
I have a friend. Works at a computer company, in a warehouse. And across the wall he has neighbors - a veterinary pharmacy. The doors are nearby, and therefore visitors often get confused. Yesterday he wrote to me in ICQ: “Today a man came and stood in the entire line! I waited until the clients took the printer, floppy disks, and some other crap... The guy eventually comes up and asks a question: “My horse is coughing... What should I do?”
- Call Natasha to the phone!
- Natasha is not here, what should I tell her?
- Give her five rubles!
The patient came to the doctor:
- Doctor, you advised me to count to 100,000 to fall asleep!
- Well, did you fall asleep?
- No, it’s already morning! Sent by Yana Sukhoverkhova from Estonia, Pärnu May 18, 2003
- Vasya! Doesn't it bother you that you're left-handed?
- No. Every person has their own shortcomings. For example, with what hand do you stir the tea?
- Right!
- Here you see! But normal people stir with a spoon!
A crazy person is walking down the street and dragging a thread behind him.
A passerby asks him:
- Why are you dragging a thread behind you?
What should I push forward?
- My neighbor was a vampire.
- How did you know this?
“And I drove an aspen stake into his chest, and he died.”
- Boy, why are you crying so bitterly?
- Because of rheumatism.
- What? So small and you already have rheumatism?
- No, I got a bad mark because I wrote “rhythmism” in the dictation!
- Sidorov! My patience has run out! Don't come to school tomorrow without your father!
- And the day after tomorrow?
- Petya, why are you laughing? Personally, I don’t see anything funny!
- And you can’t even see: you sat on my jam sandwich!
— Petya, how many excellent students are there in your class?
- Not counting me, four.
- Are you an excellent student?
- No. That's what I said - not counting me!
Phone call in the staff room:
- Hello! Is this Anna Alekseevna? Tolik's mother says.
- Who? I can't hear well!
- Tolika! I spell it out: Tatyana, Oleg, Leonid, Ivan, Kirill, Andrey!
- What? And all the children are in my class?
During a drawing lesson, one student turns to his neighbor at his desk:
- You drew great! I've got an appetite!
- Appetite? From sunrise?
- Wow! And I thought you drew scrambled eggs!
During a singing lesson, the teacher said:
— Today we’ll talk about opera. Who knows what opera is?
Vovochka raised his hand:
- I know. This is when one person kills another in a duel, and the other sings for a long time before falling!
The teacher handed out notebooks after checking the dictation.
Vovochka approaches the teacher with her notebook and asks:
- Maria Ivanovna, I didn’t understand what you wrote below!
— I wrote: “Sidorov, write legibly!”
The teacher talked in class about great inventors. Then she asked the students:
-What would you like to invent?
One student said:
— I would invent such a machine: you press a button and all the lessons are ready!
- What a lazy person! - the teacher laughed.
Then Vovochka raised his hand and said:
“And I would come up with a device that would press this button!”
Vovochka answers in zoology class:
- The length of the crocodile from head to tail is 5 meters, and from tail to head - 7 meters...
“Think about what you’re saying,” the teacher interrupts Vovochka. - Is it possible?
“It happens,” Vovochka answers. - For example, from Monday to Wednesday - two days, and from Wednesday to Monday - five!
— Vovochka, what do you want to become when you grow up?
- An ornithologist.
- Is this the one who studies birds?
- Yeah. I want to cross a pigeon with a parrot.
- For what?
- What if suddenly the pigeon gets lost, so that it can ask the way home!
The teacher asks Vovochka:
—What are the last teeth a person develops?
“Artificial,” answered Vovochka.
Vovochka stops the car on the street:
- Uncle, take me to school!
- I'm going in the opposite direction.
- All the better!
“Dad,” says Vovochka, “I must tell you that tomorrow there will be a small meeting of students, parents and teachers at school.”
— What does “small” mean?
- It's just you, me and the homeroom teacher.
We wrote a dictation. When Alla Grigorievna was checking the notebooks, she turned to Antonov:
- Kolya, why are you so inattentive? I dictated: “The door creaked and opened.” What did you write? "The door creaked and fell off!"
And everyone laughed!
“Vorobiev,” said the teacher, “you didn’t do your homework again!” Why?
— Igor Ivanovich, we had no light yesterday.
- And what were you doing? Perhaps you watched TV?
- Yeah, in the dark...
And everyone laughed!
A young teacher complains to her friend:
“One of my students completely tormented me: he makes noise, misbehaves, disrupts lessons!
- But does he have at least one positive quality?
- Unfortunately, there is - he doesn’t miss classes...
At the lesson German language We went through the topic "My Hobby". The teacher called Petya Grigoriev. He stood and was silent for a long time.
“I don’t hear the answer,” said Elena Alekseevna. — What is your hobby?
Then Petya said in German:
- Their bin briefmarke! (I am a postage stamp!)
And everyone laughed!
The lesson has begun. The teacher asked:
— Duty officer, who is absent from class?
Pimenov looked around and said:
— Mushkin is absent.
At this time, Mushkin’s head appeared in the doorway:
- I'm not absent, I'm here!
And everyone laughed!
It was a geometry lesson.
- Who solved the problem? - asked Igor Petrovich.
Vasya Rybin was the first to raise his hand.
“Great, Rybin,” the teacher praised, “Please, come to the board!”
Vasya came to the board and said importantly:
— Consider triangle ABCD!
And everyone laughed!
Why weren't you at school yesterday?
— My older brother got sick.
- What does that have to do with you?
- And I rode his bike!
- Petrov, why are you teaching so poorly? English language?
- What for?
- What do you mean why? After all, half the globe speaks this language!
- And isn’t this enough?
- Petya, if you met old man Hottabych, what wish would you ask him to fulfill?
— I would ask to make London the capital of France.
- Why?
- And yesterday I answered geography and got a bad mark!..
- Well done, Mitya. - says dad. — How did you manage to get an A in zoology?
- They asked me how many legs an ostrich has and I answered - three.
- Wait, but an ostrich has two legs!
- Yes, but all the others answered that there were four!
Petya was invited to visit. They tell him:
- Petya, take another piece of cake.
- Thank you, I have already eaten two pieces.
- Then eat a tangerine.
- Thank you, I have already eaten three tangerines.
“Then take some fruit with you.”
- Thank you, I already took it!
Cheburashka found a penny on the road. He comes to a store where they sell toys. He gives a penny to the saleswoman and says:
- Give me this toy, this one and this one!..
The saleswoman looks at him in surprise.
- Well, what are you waiting for? - says Cheburashka. - Give me the change and I'll go!
Vovochka and her dad are standing near a cage where a lion sits at the zoo.
“Dad,” says Vovochka, “and if a lion accidentally jumps out of the cage and eats you, which bus should I take home?”
“Dad,” asks Vovochka, “why don’t you have a car?”
— There is no money for a car. Don’t be lazy, study better, become a good specialist and buy yourself a car.
- Dad, why were you lazy at school?
“Petya,” asks dad, “why are you limping?”
“I put my foot in the mousetrap and it pinched me.”
- Don't stick your nose where it shouldn't!
- Grandfather, what are you doing with this bottle? Do you want to install a boat in it?
“That’s exactly what I wanted at first.” Now I would be glad to just take my hand out of the bottle!
“Dad,” the daughter turns to her father, “our phone works badly!”
- Why did you decide that?
— Now I was talking to my friend and didn’t understand anything.
—Have you tried talking in turns?
“Mom,” Vovochka asked, “how much toothpaste is in the tube?”
- Don't know.
- And I know: from the sofa to the door!
- Dad, get on the phone! - Petya shouted to his father, who was shaving in front of the mirror.
When dad finished the conversation, Petya asked him:
- Dad, are you good at remembering faces?
- I think I remember. And what?
- The fact is that I accidentally broke your mirror...
— Dad, what is “telefiguration”?
- Don't know. Where did you read this?
- I didn’t read it, I wrote it!
- Natasha, why are you writing a letter to your grandmother so slowly?
- It’s okay: grandma reads slowly too!
- Anya, what have you done! You broke a vase that was two hundred years old!
- What happiness, mom! I thought it was completely new!
- Mom, what is etiquette?
- This is the ability to yawn with your mouth closed...
The art teacher says to Vovochka’s father:
— Your son has exceptional abilities. Yesterday he drew a fly on his desk, and I even knocked my hand away trying to get it away!
- What else is that! Recently he painted a crocodile in the bathroom, and I got so scared that I tried to jump out through the door, which was also painted on the wall.
Little Johnny says to his father:
- Dad, I decided to give you a gift for your birthday!
“The best gift for me,” said dad, “is if you study with straight A’s.”
- It's too late, dad, I already bought you a tie!
A little boy watches his dad at work as he paints the ceiling.
Mom says:
- Watch, Petya, and learn. And when you grow up, you will help your dad.
Petya is surprised:
- What, he won’t finish by then?
The hostess, hiring a new maid, asked her:
- Tell me, my dear, do you like parrots?
- Oh, don't worry, madam, I eat everything!
An auction is taking place in a pet store - talking parrots are on sale. One of the buyers who purchased a parrot asks the seller:
- Does he really speak well?
- Still would! After all, he was the one who kept increasing the price!
- Petya, what will you do if hooligans attack you?
- I’m not afraid of them - I know judo, karate, aikedo and other scary words!
- Hello! Animal defence community? There is a postman sitting on a tree in my yard and calling my poor dog all sorts of bad names!
Three bears return to their hut.
- Who touched my plate and ate my porridge?! - Papa Bear growled.
- Who touched my saucer and ate my porridge?! - the bear cub squeaked.
“Calm down,” said mother bear. - There was no porridge: I didn’t cook it today!
One man caught a cold and decided to treat himself with self-hypnosis. He stood in front of the mirror and began to inspire himself:
- I won’t sneeze, I won’t sneeze, I won’t sneeze... A-a-pchhi!!! This is not me, this is not me, this is not me...
- Mom, why does dad have so little hair on his head?
- The fact is that our dad thinks a lot.
“Then why do you have such voluminous hair?”
— Dad, today the teacher told us about an insect that lives only one day. That's great!
— Why “great”?
- Imagine, you can celebrate your birthday all your life!
One fisherman, a teacher by profession, caught a small catfish, admired it, and, throwing it back into the river, said:
- Go home and come back with your parents tomorrow!
A husband and wife came by car to visit. Leaving the car at the house, they tied the dog nearby and told it to guard the car. When they got ready to return home in the evening, they saw that all the wheels of the car had been removed. And there was a note attached to the car: “Don’t scold the dog, she was barking!”
One Englishman walked into a bar with a dog and told the visitors:
— I bet my talking dog will now read Hamlet’s monologue “To be or not to be!”
Alas, he immediately lost the bet. Because the dog didn't say a single word.
Coming out of the bar, the owner began shouting at the dog:
-Are you completely stupid?! I lost a thousand pounds because of you!
“You’re stupid,” the dog objected. - Don’t you understand that tomorrow in the same bar we can win ten times more!
- Your dog is strange - she sleeps all day long. How can she guard the house?
“It’s very simple: when someone stranger approaches the house, we wake her up and she starts barking.
The wolf is going to eat the hare. Hare says:
- Let's agree. I'll tell you three riddles. If you don't guess them, you'll let me go.
- Agree.
— A pair of black ones, shiny, with laces.
The wolf is silent.
- This is a pair of boots. Now the second riddle: four black, shiny ones, with laces.
The wolf is silent.
— Two pairs of shoes. The third riddle is the most difficult: it lives in a swamp, it is green, it croaks, it starts with “la” and ends with “gushka”.
The wolf shouts joyfully:
— Three pairs of shoes!!!
Bats hang on the ceiling. All, as expected, heads down, and one - head up. The mice hanging nearby chatter:
- Why is she hanging upside down?
- And she does yoga!
The crow found a large piece of cheese. Then a fox suddenly jumped out from behind the bushes and slapped the crow on the head. The cheese fell out, the fox immediately grabbed it and ran away.
The stunned crow says with offense:
- Wow, they shortened the fable!
The zoo director, out of breath, comes running to the police station:
- For God's sake, help, our elephant has run away!
“Calm down, citizen,” said the policeman. - We will find your elephant. Name the special signs!
An owl flies and shouts:
- Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh!..
Suddenly he hit a pole:
- Wow!
A Japanese schoolboy enters a company store selling watches.
— Do you have a reliable alarm clock?
“It couldn’t be more reliable,” the seller answers. “First the siren goes on, then an artillery salvo is heard, and a glass of cold water is poured on your face. If that doesn't work, the alarm clock rings the school and tells you that you have the flu!
Guide: - in front of you is a rare exhibit of our museum - a beautiful statue of a Greek warrior. Unfortunately, he is missing an arm and a leg, and his head is damaged in some places. The work is called "Winner".
Visitor: - Great! I'd like to see what's left of the vanquished one!
A foreign tourist arriving in Paris turns to a Frenchman:
“I come here for the fifth time, and I see that nothing has changed!”
- What should change? - he asks.
Tourist (points to the Eiffel Tower):
— In the end, did they find oil here or not?
One society lady asked Heine:
— What do you need to do to learn to speak French?
“It’s not difficult,” he answered, “you just need to use French instead of German words.”
In a history lesson in a French school:
—Who was the father of Louis the Sixteenth?
— Louis the Fifteenth.
- Fine. And Charles the Seventh?
— Charles the Sixth.
- And Francis the First? Well, what are you silent?
- Francis... Zero!
During a history lesson, the teacher said:
— Today we will repeat the old material. Natasha, ask Semenov a question.
Natasha thought and asked:
- What year was the war of 1812?
And everyone laughed.
The parents had no time, and grandfather went to the parent meeting. He arrived in a bad mood and immediately began to scold his grandson:
- Disgrace! It turns out that your history is full of bad marks! For example, I always got straight A's in this subject!
“Of course,” the grandson answered, “at the time when you were studying, history was much shorter!”
Baba Yaga asks Koshchei the Immortal:
— How did you relax during the New Year holidays?
“I shot myself a couple of times, drowned myself three times, hanged myself once—in general, I had fun!”
Winnie the Pooh congratulated the donkey on his birthday, and then said:
- Eeyore, you must be many years old?
- Why do you say that?
- Judging by your ears, you've been pulled on them often!
A client enters a photo studio and asks the receptionist:
— I wonder why everyone is laughing in your photographs?
- You should have seen our photographer!
-What are you complaining about? - the doctor asks the patient.
- You know, by the end of the day I just fall from fatigue.
- What do you do in the evenings?
— I play the violin.
— I recommend stopping music lessons immediately!
When the patient left, the nurse asked the doctor in surprise:
- Ivan Petrovich, what does music lessons have to do with it?
- Absolutely nothing to do with it. It’s just that this woman lives on the floor above me, and our soundproofing is disgusting!
“Yesterday I pulled a pike weighing twenty kilograms out of an ice hole!”
- Can't be!
- That's it, I thought that no one would believe me, so I let her out back...
The summer resident addresses the owner of the dacha:
— Could you please lower the rent for the room a little?
- What are you talking about? With such a beautiful view of the birch grove!
- What if I promise you that I won’t look out the window?
The millionaire shows his guest his villa and says:
— And here I’m going to build three swimming pools: one with cold water, the second - with warm water, and the third - without water at all.
- Without water? - the guest is surprised. - For what?
— The fact is that some of my friends don’t know how to swim...
At a painting exhibition, one visitor asks another:
— Do you think this picture depicts a sunrise or sunset?
- Of course, sunset.
- Why do you think so?
— I know this artist. He doesn't wake up before noon.
Buyer: - I would like to buy some book.
Seller: - Would you like something light?
Buyer: - It doesn’t matter, I’m driving!
An unknown young man set a world record in the 100-meter race. A journalist interviews him:
- How did you do it? Have you trained a lot in any sports club?
- No, at the shooting range. I work there replacing targets...
“I recently ran two kilometers in one minute at a school competition!”
- You're lying! This is better than a world record!
- Yes, but I know a shortcut!
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Writing short humorous stories is an enjoyable activity that will help you realize your passion for writing and hone your sense of humor. Humor helps relieve tension in difficult situations and unite people through laughter, which is very useful if the plot is complex or tragic. No matter why you need to write a humorous story (for a literature class or just because you have a great idea), this activity will allow you to use your sense of humor and find a way to express yourself.
Steps
Planning stage
- Try to choose an off-the-beaten-path location. If you are not original in your choice of passage, the reader will quickly lose interest because he will feel like he has heard it before.
- Humorous stories should have as few changes of scene as possible. Aim to have only one seat, two at most.
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Think over the plot. Plot is the most important element of any story. Plot is what happens in a story, the characters and how they interact.
- A good story must have a beginning, middle and end. Within this structure there must be a source of tension, a climax (maximum point of tension) and a resolution that leads to the end.
- Think about what might be a source of tension in your story and tailor it to the location and time you choose.
- Think about how this source of tension might play out in your story. Perhaps the setting can heighten tension or create romance.
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Think about the heroes. Any story must have interesting and realistic characters. In humorous stories, the reader expects to see characters who either have funny traits or find themselves in funny situations.
Use of humor
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Try to see the funny in everything. When thinking over a future humorous story, collect as much funny stuff as possible from all areas of life. It could be something personal or related to politics or culture. When you come across something interesting, write it down in relation to your story (plot) and situation (that is, the topic you are working with - for example, it could be friendship) and note why you think it is funny.
- Write down any ideas you come up with. Record everything funny that you see and hear, as well as all your thoughts regarding the plots and characters.
- Don't be afraid to borrow stories from your personal experience or from the lives of friends.
- A humorous story doesn't have to be entirely autobiographical, but if it contains elements of something you've experienced yourself, it will make your work special.
- Follow events in the world. You might not write a story that involves breaking news or celebrity gossip, but it might give you the idea for a story based on a true story that has cultural significance.
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Have your own strong beliefs. In the humor genre, honesty on the part of the author is important, and this means that you, as the author of short humorous stories, must be honest with yourself. Before you begin, think about what you believe so you can base your observations and the text as a whole on it.
- You can hardly tell a political joke without deciding which side you're on. In the same way, you shouldn’t remain neutral in your writing.
- Don't be afraid that your humor will alienate people who disagree with you - just know what you think is right, as this will help you find humor in certain situations.
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Look for sources of inspiration. If you want to write a short humorous story, it can be helpful to look for something that will inspire you. Inspiration can come in many forms, but the most effective way is to read and watch as much comedy material as possible.
- Read humorous prose. It can be found on the Internet, in the library, or purchased in a bookstore.
- Watch humorous films and TV series. This isn't exactly the format you need, but it may also give you some useful ideas.
- While reading or watching, try to analyze the humor.
- Think about why you find something funny. Analyze how the writer or screenwriter came up with the plot and characters, and look for ways to adapt those techniques to your work.
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Know what the joke is. You can include jokes in your text, and to do it correctly, you need to know how comedians do it. Using jokes is optional, but if you plan to do so, it's best to learn the basic principles. The joke should be simple and the reader shouldn't have to think twice to understand it. Ideally, a joke should cause laughter the moment the reader finishes reading it.
Don't use humor all the time. It may seem strange that not everything in a humorous story should be funny, but too much humor can spoil even good story. You shouldn't force jokes on your readers - the story should be funny, but not oversaturated with humor.
- Remember that a humorous story must have a realistic plot, characters and dialogue. A story cannot consist only of a sequence of jokes.
- You can find humor in the place and time of action, in characters, in situations, or in combinations of these elements. If you try to put too much humor into one text, even a humorous one, you end up with a parody, not a story.
Working on the text
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Describe the setting and characters as early as possible. In any story, you first need to explain to the reader who the story is about, where the action takes place, and give a hint of what will happen next. This also applies to humorous stories, they just still have something funny in them. Readers should not be kept in the dark for too long, otherwise they will abandon the story before finishing it.
- The beginning of the story should describe the setting and at least one character.
- Tell where the action takes place, but only mention the most important things. Try to extract as much useful and funny information from the scene as possible.
- Think about how and where humor will appear. Try to at least hint at this in the beginning.
- Remember that at least something must appear in the beginning - a source of tension, a source of humor, or something that will become important later.
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In the middle, events and circumstances should become more complex and funny. It's in the middle that the story usually gets muddled. Short humorous stories contain a lot of good humor in the middle, or at least create opportunities for humor to emerge towards the end.
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Write a short ending. In a short story there is little room for long reasoning and conclusions. The story should end quickly and briefly, and by the end the humor should already appear (especially if in the middle of the story you created the conditions for funny situations to arise).
- The conflict should develop quite quickly. Humor may lie in how the conflict is resolved, but it may also simply accompany it.
- The ending should be short. Remember that due to the format of the story, you will have to discard all unimportant details.
- Try to keep the ending in just one paragraph. There should be humor in the last sentence so that the reader can breathe a sigh of relief.
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Write realistic dialogues. You already have characters that look like real people, and now you need them to communicate with each other in a way that the reader will believe you. If the reader is immersed in the story and does not think that it was all made up, the story can be considered well written.
- Think about how people talk to each other. Read the dialogues out loud and ask yourself if people really say that.
- Good dialogue should develop the plot. Cut out the unnecessary and don't state the obvious.
- Dialogue should reveal the characters' personalities, including how they interact and treat other people.
- Do not overload your explanations with unnecessary details. For example, instead of the following phrase: “What should we do?” he asked, nervously looking at the ground and avoiding her gaze, it is better to say this: “What should we do?” he asked, without taking his eyes off the ground ".
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Say everything you want to say in few words. This is one of the most difficult tasks in writing. short stories. It may seem more difficult to write a long book, but a short story should accomplish the same goals, just with a space limitation. Everything should come together by the end, but beyond that, the story should also be filled with humor.
- You may have big ideas, but it is important to remember that when writing a short humorous story, you are limited in the amount of text.
- Don't leave an idea unfinished. In a story, the main idea must be fully developed.
- To reduce the volume, you can get rid of unimportant elements and words.
- If you have said everything you wanted to say (either explicitly or through descriptions), you can consider that the idea has been fully realized.
- For example, you need a lot of space to describe the complexity of human relationships. A short story can highlight a specific aspect of friendship (for example, forgiveness of offensive words or actions).
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Focus on what's most important. You may find it difficult to write your own story if you haven't read similar stories by other authors. You can condense a long story or expand a short one, but the most important thing to remember is the key elements of any story.
- Some writers find it easier to write long text and then shorten it. This approach guarantees completeness of thought.
- Other writers prefer to start with a small passage and work from there. This will make it easier to write a short text, and this way you will save yourself from the torment associated with deleting some parts of the text.
- There is no right or wrong way to write a story, so choose what suits you best.
- Whatever method you choose, be sure to keep the narrative complete, develop characters, and use humor wisely.
Editing
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Before you start editing, put your work aside. The worst thing you can do is to start proofreading a text immediately after finishing working on it. You need to take a break from the story so that you can look at it with a fresh mind. This will allow you to take your mind off the small details.
- At least one to two weeks should pass between the completion of the text and the start of editing. Ideally, it is better to leave the text for a month.
- Ask a close friend or relative to read your story. Ask him to give honest criticism. Say that it is very important for you to know what you did poorly and why.
- Reading the text with a fresh mind will help you see errors that you may have missed. When you're engrossed in writing, you may feel like you've written something because it's still in your head, when in fact you might have left it out.
- A break from text is also necessary because later it will be easier for you to throw away unnecessary things. You might really love one scene, but weeks later you might decide it wasn't as important as you thought it was.
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Remind yourself what your goal is. What is the purpose of your story? Have you tried to pay attention to the real situation in society? Want to analyze a certain aspect of human nature? Laugh at personal experience? Whatever your intentions, you should remind yourself of what you want to convey to the reader before you begin editing.
- By remembering why you started writing this text, it will be easier for you to understand what you wanted to achieve. Thanks to this, you will understand whether you succeeded in achieving your goal.
- Consider whether the tone of the story matches your intentions as well as all the events in the story.
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Explain anything that seems unclear. This is one of the reasons why the text needs to be put aside for a while. Once you've finished writing a story, you probably won't be able to notice things that will confuse the reader. If some time passes after this, it will be easier for you to find your mistakes.
- Misunderstandings can be caused by the content of the story (or the lack of things in the plot) or poor transitions between scenes. Transitions should be smooth: from scene to scene, from chapter to chapter.
- A successful transition ends the previous episode and leads the reader to the next.
- Here is an example of a good transition between scenes: “He followed her with his gaze until she disappeared into the darkness. In the morning he began to look in that direction again, although he knew that by that moment she would have already covered half the road home.”
- Ask a friend to read your story and tell you what parts seem unclear or confusing.
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Check the text for errors. Proofreading is not the same as editing. When editing, you rewrite some parts of the text and throw out what is poorly written. During proofreading, grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors are corrected.
- Look for spelling errors, syntax errors, grammatical errors, poor sentences and parts of sentences, errors in punctuation, and weak explanations of lines.
- Use a spell checker or ask a friend who is good at proofreading for mistakes to check your story.
- Try reading the story out loud. Sometimes mistakes are easier to catch by ear.
- Do not give up! If you can't think of anything, take a break and start over.
- Don't forget that newly written stories are never flawless. The writer's task is to change texts and bring them to perfection.
- Let a close friend read your work. You must trust this person and value his opinion. Ask him to point you to those fragments that were successful for you, And those that require improvement.
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Decide where the action will take place. Some people prefer to think through the plot first, but in humorous prose a lot depends on the situations. Before you start working on the plot, it will be useful for you to think about where the action will take place and what might lead to funny situations.
