Putting A Little Humor Into Your Articles

You know what I’ve found as an online article writer? I’ve found that so many articles are dry and boring, and I just can’t stand reading them. I feel as if I’m reading Wikipedia or an encyclopedia, and they just drag on and on. It seems that more online article writers need to put a little bit of humor into their articles, at least to get the reader to smile now and again. I’m not saying you need to put laughing gas into the “Smell-O-Matic” peripheral plugged into their USB port, but, there are easy ways to make your reader giggle, or grin. Okay so let’s talk and we can begin.
One of the easiest ways that I found to put in a little humor is when you are trying to make a point, you overly exaggerate with an analogy or, when you are trying to make a really big point, you under exaggerate it. Other techniques have to do with making a play on words, as they commonly do in newspaper titles of articles. Using analogies which are vaguely close, but somewhat silly go a long way to lightning up the day for the reader. After writing thousands of articles, and reading tens of thousands, it seems to me that someone needs to help all the online authors out there make the world smile again.
It doesn’t take much, and I know it’s very difficult for those that are perhaps new to writing, or are writing in a second language, after all it’s hard enough to write as it is, but as you get more proficient, you should be always thinking about how you can make something funny or fun. Even if you don’t have a huge sense of humor, during the editing phase you can look at what you’ve written and find ways to splice in humorous comments. Now then, as a writer I must confess sometimes I’ll write articles, and forget to do this, but in the articles that I do insert humor, they sound so much better, and they’re fun to read – if you don’t your reader can smell it.
If you leave your reader with a favorable opinion, and they had some fun reading your article, they are more than likely to read other articles you’ve written, and who knows you might develop some sort of a fan club. This is not to say that once you learn how to string words together that you should make your articles all fun and games with no real meat or content inside, rather you should concentrate on the content and use the humor to break the ice, and give permission to the reader to have some fun, because you know what; like you, they deserve it. Please consider all this and think on it.