"I'm looking for a sentence that describes a problem for the character. And ideally, when you read that sentence, it makes you laugh.
So I'm looking for a comic problem. It doesn't need to be a big problem. It doesn't have to be "the nuclear launch codes have been stolen and you need to get them back."
The problems can be trivial. In some ways, the smaller the problem, the funnier it is. Because if it really matters to the character and it's also very small, then the problem will be funny. But if the character really wants something, that's enough.
Once you have something the character wants, you present some obstacles.
Your characters need to want different things. Maybe one character wants to get on a plane while the other doesn't want to get on a plane.
That's the stuff of drama."
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