Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

Sorry!

Most people can’t tell a joke very well.

I think everyone knows if they are funny or not, except in-laws, and about half of all people can tell a decent joke. Most of the others can kind of tell one well, and a few… just can’t tell a joke at all.

Same with stories/anecdotes. Verbal tales. Some people can’t tell one, others can.

So when it gets to writing, a lot of people were taught to read and write and diagram sentences and identify a noun and verb, so we all think we can write. We do it all the time, after all. Grocery lists. Reports for work. Facebook posts.

If you aren’t funny and try to be anyway.

But it’s like telling a joke, we can’t all do it. A lot of us can, but a lot of us can’t. The ones who actually try…