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FUNNY LINES FOR CASH

You can sell your good jokes to all kinds of comedian and
cartoonists if you follow simple procedures when submitting. But
like Greeting Card writing, this is an extremely competitive
field and unless you are very good, you cannot expect to make a
living at it.

Start by looking through the latest edition of the Writer's
Market under Gag Writing.

You might be surprised at the large number of cartoonists
looking for work, and even more surprised by the kind of work
they're seeking. Make a study of this section of the book before
you start writing gags and making submissions.

One idea: when making your first set of submissions, include a
card that reads as follows: Thank you for the submission, but I
am returning them because they are:

___  Not suitable for my markets    	___  Not professional
___  Not funny enough	 		___ Not funny at all
___  I don't need new submissions at this time


Expect to see the last slot checked off frequently. What this
card will do is show you who is most impressed by your work and
who might be a better bet for a future sale. If you sent your
best batch of gags to someone you thought could use them and he
says they aren't funny at all, why waste postage trying to
change his mind?

If you want to give this a try, start writing gags immediately
and file a lot of them, several hundred if possible, before
making your submissions. The more you have to choose from, the
better your choices will be and the better your chances of
making a sale. Be aware that payment for cartoon ideas is not as
good as for greeting cards.

If you get some positive response from your submissions, you
might even want to start hanging around at comedy dubs. Young
comics need the very best material that they can get if they
hope to make any sort of name for themselves, and many will be
happy to pay two to five dollars for a good line. Provided, of
course, that you don't turn around and resell it to someone else
the next day.

Don't forget that many daily newspapers and magazines pay cash
for good jokes but they tend to get swamped with submissions, so
unless you have a lot of faith in your idea you just might be
wasting postage.



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