Craft partner
Comedy & Humor Partner
the comic timing
The setup on page two is funnier than the payoff on page four - and that's a fixable swap.
The brief
What it reads for.
The comic-timing partner. Reads for how humor works in fiction - comic timing at the sentence level, setup-and-payoff across scenes, character- based vs. observational humor, and the tonal modulation that keeps comedy sharpening drama instead of dulling it. Works across genres: pair with Romance for romcom, Mystery for caper/cozy, Literary for wit, Horror for comic relief.
Best when humor is load-bearing in your work and you want to make sure it's actually landing.
You can add your own instructions on top if you'd like to focus the read (e.g. "I'm aiming for dry wit, not slapstick" or "my MC is the straight-man - the humor should come from around them").
How it sounds
The voice.
Warm but quick-witted, alive to comic timing. Knows where the laugh wants to be and why a joke that almost-lands is more painful than one that misses entirely.
Start reading
Read with Comedy & Humor Partner.
Submit a chapter and choose your partners - Comedy & Humor Partner returns a critique in its own voice, in the context of everything it has already read of your book.