New Here...But have Written Before

Hello, I'm new here but am loking for some advice.

Last year, totally on a whim, I decided to submit a sample to Politicalbrew.com. I had never done humor writing before, but I was bored and interested...it probably helped that one of my favorite authors is Dave Barry.

Anyway, I was totally blown away by Mr. Patel's offer in reply...$500 for an 10-week series, if I was up to it. Immediately, I accepted, and had a blast.

I submitted this column to the Penn State newspaper, and now they want me to write a weekly humor column for them.

What I'm respectfully asking you folks for is some advice. Can you read my previous work, and tell me your opinion as to my ability to possibly do more of this work? I got great response to my column as it ran online, but I'd like the opinion from some people who seem to have been at this a while.

Should I start soliciting writing offers from other websites? I never thought of humor writing as a quasi-career before, but now...

http://www.politicalbrew.com/feature.cgi?id=humor&num=1

Hey, thanks for the reply.

Its true that there will never be a shortage of politicians, and as long as they exist it will be easy to point out what doesn't make sense.

I guess the question I was really trying to ask but couldn't phrase properly:

Is my humor writing good enough to justify spending some significant time with it, rather than 2-3 hours/week? I have had several friends tell me its gold, but guess as the author it never really seems quite as good to me as I'd like it to be.

Thanks, guys.


Also, I just got my response back from the editor of the Penn State newspaper, who said, and I quote:

"I read your column, good stuff; congratulations on the expectations you now have to live up to."

Thanks for the compliment...I think?

I appreciate everyone's input, and thanks.

I like this forum. It's a lot more than just a glorified back-patting forum like a couple other writing places I've visited in the last couple of weeks. I think I'll stick around a while.

Unfortunately, as I was a late add to the Penn State paper, my editor just conveniently let me know that my first article is due...Today.

So, see you all in a couple of hours :/

There's a whole archive of them on that page...in reverse time order.

Soon I'll be posting my columns for Penn State as well.