Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Humor in Writing

Life's Irritations


 Write humor out of your bad experiences, not your good ones.  Think about it.
Which would make a better story, your best trip with your best friend or the worst, with your father muttering obscenities over a steaming radiator, while your sister screams for a bathroom right now!!  What was awful then is probably hilarious now.  Some of life's most irritating things--telemarketers, computer glitches, being kept on hold forever-- yield some of the most reliable humor.  

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