On Being A Funnier Writer

The best writing advice I ever received was to write something--every day if possible--to achieve the mythical 10,000 hour mark. I am pretty sure that I am nowhere near 10k hours of hammering the keys, but I did have a sudden spark of geekery earlier tonight in which I took an ever-so-serious story idea and spun it on its head, turning it into a comedy idea... which I like.

Understand, I write serious stuff most of the time. Every once in a while I will throw a humorous nugget into the mix, but my stuff is normally mostly drama, conversation, or exposition. Rewind an hour or so, and I'm looking at this serious 25-word sentence that I wrote a few days ago and BOOM! it hits me that this is black comedy, ripe for the picking...

I now have 300 words and a title, and I like this story; I like it a lot :)