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Originally Posted by Dude13

My standards aren't exactly high for the humor ideas - some people might see a turkey and think "bird", I look at it and see "instant story idea."

Oh, don't you see?? That is why they are so ingenious. You take the smallest thing and make it funny. Your stories are things that are so believable, yet so not because of the setting.

Craig McCracken once used an example somewhere of this same type thing (an interview I once read somewhere...). He imagined a group of brightly-colored imaginary friends on a background of a Victorian mansion. Tat clash- the odd and unordinary with the ordinary and simple (yet ornate, when are talking about the mansion)- is exactly what your humor stories have- something simple that everyone sees and walks right by on a regular basis, but can have humor to it that only people like you can see.

You see, the true nature of a writer is to look at something and say to themselves, "What if..."

You do that with things people might not think of- while using already estabilshed characters, which is quite a feat (you know how hard it is to keep them in character).

Not many people can come up with a plot around turkey, or a laundry chute, or any of the things you listed. I sure couldn't.

You ARE a genius, whether you realize it or not...

-Marty