Don’t try to force figurative language. If it comes hard for you, maybe it isn’t part of your voice.
Don’t try to force figurative language. If it comes hard for you, maybe it isn’t part of your voice.
Don’t cut perfectly good words just because somebody told you to. Listen to the voice of your story, and be true to it.
Perhaps success rests in making certain the humor is strongly grounded in human foible and common experience.