Kelly is right. The way to find out if your writing is funny is show it to other people. The very best technique is to do a reading and see if people laugh in the right places. Next best is to hand the m.s. to several readers.
I think all of my writing is funny, but I realize -- thinking about the topic -- that humor, neat ideas and sense of wonder are all pretty closely related in my mind. Even a bleak idea is can be funny, if it's really neat. Terry Pratchett's clowns are both bleak and funny.
Chick Lit humor, which I know only from Tate's novels, is a category of its own and seems to require lightness. I might be able to do Chick Lit humor, if a gun was put against my head, but it would be difficult and I might well get blown away.
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