Where's the joy de vivrevrere? ruh?

I've been writing without a sense of fun, and I believe that if I'm not having fun writing, then it's not going to be fun to read. I suppose this isn't necessarily true, but I'm not writing some Dickensian novel, I'm writing something with, let's be honest, a little less substance. So I better be having fun while writing, otherwise I'm going to end up with something forced like my college short story. It was like I was trying so hard to show some universal truths, well not even that, I was trying so hard to create a plot of show some of the characters doing Big Serious Things. My strength is in the fun, and I need to return to that.