Lessons from Writing Funny

I read somewhere that writing funny stories takes three simple ingredients:

Funny characters…facing funny problems…and coming up with funny solutions.

Boom. Easy-peasy, right? When I went into writing my new book Your Best Apocalypse Now, I figured it would be a nice change of pace. A nice easy change of pace. I’d been writing twisty, weird science fiction with tons of worldbuilding and crazy monsters for years, so surely it wouldn’t be too hard to write a short, funny novel. It would be a wa...