So, how do you distinguish a crackfic from a comedy?
I just started writing what I thought was a comedy when the absurdity of the story began to trickle into my consciousness. I'm sure there's a fine line. But are there any charateristics of a crackfic that you have in your head that could help me decide whether I'm on the dark path?
I think it depends on how much you have to suspend your disbelief that this situation would be plausible in canon.
Like, super OOC or super crazy scenarios that are "unrealistic" or would never happen in canon.
But I mean.... that definition is probably too vague an unhelpful, sorry.
Humor can be infused in even the darkest fic, so humor and crackfic are mutually exclusive to me. And not all crack fic is funny.
I have never heard of crackfic not being funny! Do you have any examples?
I've always wanted to do a challenge fest where people prompt really "cracky" scenarios and writers try to write them as realistically canon as possible LOL xD /random
What exactly is your cracky idea? Or humorous idea? Feel free to PM if it's for an anon fest.
ETA: I guess if I were going to expand on that, I'd say crackfic might be more like a farce? No pretense at believability, so you don't worry so much about plausible character development etc, you just let yourself be outrageous and hilarious and wacky? But I don't know if this is what it means to others, or just to me. I've only written one thing I considered crack - but it sure was fun!
Edited at 2015-09-17 04:34 pm (UTC)