I have written since I was a little girl.  All through the years of adulthood, I have taken every writing class I could find.  One college class I took in English and writing we had to write a humorous piece and it was graded A+++++.  The instructor said mine was the best in the class and that I should write books because I was really funny.  She said humor was a hard genre to write in and I had it.  That was my inspiration.  I try to see the funny side of every aspect of life.