Weird (and/or Stupid) Questions

theimpatientone
Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:21:08 +0000

I can’t comment on the short questions or emoticons, but regarding humor; if you’re the kind of person who regularly finds the humor in life, then humor would probably come naturally in your essay and it would probably work.

But if you try to use humor for the sake of having humor, it turn out to be humorless, or worse, contrived.

For me, a joke or two occasionally comes out in an essay. I don’t plan for it, and it doesn’t always work. But in some of the essays I’ve seen, the humor is generally pretty light. Don’t try to write a comedy routine.