She s so skinny that when she swallowed an olive she was rushed to the maternity ward. Each time I give a workshop about humorous writing, I come away wondering if I ve gotten through to my audience. In truth, there s really no concrete way to explain how to write humor.
Some writers have a knack for it.
Others cannot write it at all. Picture three naughty boy triplets called Snig, Snag, and Snug or an old wanderer named Oble Smott. Imagine a tiny gray squirrel named Thurlow Wadsworth McGee or a feisty midget who s name is Big Mann. Human quirks are humorous. My husband always eats his meat last.