Think of an incident in your life and ask the following questions:
1 How old were you and when did it happen?
2 Where were you? Be specific.
3 Who were you with?
4 What can you see and what can you hear?
5 What are you doing?
6 What are you feeling on the inside?
7 What was the outcome?
Meld and compile these separate lines into a short story of no more than 100 words.
Now do something to it that will make you laugh, chuckle, smile or guffaw. Anything that tickles your funny bones which might be anywhere in your anatomy.
Don’t worry about whether it makes anyone else laugh. It has to make you laugh first of all.
You could do all sorts of things: change perspective, modify the language, make fun of yourself, subvert cliches – the list is probably endless. There are loads of websites out there which will ask you to fork out to join a course to hear the words of wisdom from a humour expert: when the truth is, you know what makes you laugh. And you can bet your life it will make it other people laugh too. As we’re only too fond of quoting William Goldman, ‘No-one Knows Anything”. So you’re in good company!
Voila, your short funny story for the day!
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