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4 Ways To Infuse A Little Humour Into Your Writing

Because don’t we all just want to laugh sometimes?

Lindsay Rae Brown
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Photo by Гоар Авдалян on Unsplash

I have exactly one thing going for me in my writing career.

Is it my abysmal spelling aptitude? Or the fact that when my Grammarly app shits the bed, I have a mental breakdown because my readers will find out that I don’t know the difference between then and than (joke!)?

Do I have a leg up because I’ve never studied the art of writing formally and instead chance my way through this writer’s world like a one-legged zebra on the savannah, cackling like the hyenas from The Lion King?

No. These are all significant hindrances in this writing career I’m trying to carve out for myself.

What I do have, is a simple thing, really.

Occasionally, people tell me I’m funny.

I’ve been writing online for years now, and bless the writing gods above, I’ve managed to make some awesome friends through writing groups! I did this by sharing remarkably personal and humiliating stories on the internet that they found amusing.

And what is the one way that we can strongarm ourselves into the hearts and minds of our fellow earthlings?

Humour, that’s how.

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