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looking for an experienced mentor on Humor genre

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draculeen

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looking for an experienced mentor? anyone? I am housetrained!

The genre of my writing style is humor, and particularly abstract humor, faulty logic and non-sequiturs.
I am looking for a mentor who is experienced and knowledgable and who is willing to answer my questions on a book that I am writing, and on my writing style. If they would be willing to read a little bit of the book that would be great! I would like some advice on reaching my goals, but first I want some help with determining how realistic my goals are.
I would also appreciate some advice and guidance with writing articles as a means of adding to my income. I am very experienced in the field of alternative medicine, and I have also written cookbooks.
Funny enough, I believe that I would make a great agony aunt, lol, but I have no idea as to how to go about finding such a job either...
thank you very much
 
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Hi Draculeen - I don't know if you've visited the Share Your Work forums, but there is a good humor section with quite a few humor writers and critiquers. You might want to check that out and possibly post a portion of your work to get some comments. It's also legitimate to ask for suggestions of markets when you post specific pieces. Why don't you give that a try? Puma
 
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I'll second that idea. if it makes you feel really uncomfortable you can PM me and i'll take a look. but i am brutally honest, so ask yourself if you are willing to trust 1 complete stranger as opposed to a large group. generally the large group will give you a much more balanced, softer opinion. I would recommend that, and by exposing your work you may find someone who relates to your style and will be more than happy to read more of it. i post my stuff there all the time and usually don't worry about it. take a look. good luck!
 
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The other thing is humor is WAY SUBJECTIVE, so what one may find funny, another may find dull.

The share your work forums are a nice place to start.

Or you can take the other approach send your material out to buying markets and see what happens.
 

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Dear Puma, Dreamworks and Johnzakour, thank you for your replies!
I will post more on this wretched book of mine in the Humor section :) I would like to submit the idea to some literary agents, alas though, I am beginning to discover that preparing a proposal is even more complicated than writing a book lol
Have a great day, everyone! :)
 

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The general concensus seems to be that the Mentoring & Writing Partners forum is superfluous. :Shrug:

p.s. If someone knows about this subforum and posts in it, they are also aware of the SYW section.
 
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