I've got the solution for you:
Running gags. They're easy to use, easy to come up with, and even easier to overuse. Being a complete titan in the field of literary crtique, I will put together a rough guide, on how to entertain your audience, by boring them to death.
Step one: Probing.
It is important to know your enemy/audience (often seem to overlap, judging by what proponents of this technique force their readers to absorb). What do they have in common? What have they emailed/skyped/icqed you about, and said it might not actually be half bad? If there is even a slight positive reaction to a line in an article of yours, the potential for an artisitically challenged running gag is officially skyrocketing.
Step two: Defining the gag.
When you have gathered enough chuckles from your audience, you should learn exactly which phrase gave the time they wasted some redeeming value. Now be sure to use bold text, or something so you can make it stand out, and write so your entire work is just foreplay to that phrase. It is what the screaming crowd wants. That or you shutting up.
Step three: (Ab)Using the gag.
Now instead of writing a decent plot thesis, write things in such a way, that you get opportunities to use that gag. Your work should be concentrated on the ability to use the gag in every converstation imaginable. You shouldn't be stopped by obscure notions of abstract concepts like talent and originality.
That's about it my dear audience. If you ever happen to be low on talent, you know where to look. Now sing me praises!!!
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I see your sense of humor is as full of it's power as it's been since the time I got here :D ! By the way, thank you for the advice, I would surely take advantage of it as a lonely blog person like yourself! :D
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