Ronnie's+Response

=Rule 7 - Laugh at your own jokes.=

I find this to be extremely important as a writer. Being proud of what you have written is very important to me. I will on the occasion write the joke or two in my writing. It is important for me to find it funny because more often than not, people with similar tastes to mine will be reading my writing. Therefor if I find my joke funny, it is quite possible for my target audience to also find it humorous. It is important that if you have joke that your audience to also get a laugh from it.

To me it goes further, than just laughing at your own jokes, though. You have to be interested and invested in what you're writing. You have to like it. For example I wouldn't be able to write a story about the culture of modern day France, because I'm not interested in it. Where it would loads easier for me to write a fiction about robots, because I'm into the whole Sci-Fi feel in media. I find my self deeply interested in my characters and think of them outside of my writing. I wonder about all of the possibilities. I think of what may or may not work.

In short what Neil Gaiman's seventh rule of writing means to me is that, one must find what they are doing humorous and interesting.