DOCTOR FUNNY SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Doctor Funny — Tickle Our Funny Bone

Not a bunch of doctor jokes, a bunch of jokers

Looking for a fun place to publish? Read on.

The basics:

1. Bottom line — just write funny. You don’t have to have a doctorate degree.
2. Doctor Funny is all about being funny. Approach that from any angle you wish, but keep it funny-focused. Readers landing at Doctor Funny should be amused, cheered, enlivened, and entertained. Satire, sarcasm, sardonic, all works. Evil dark stuff … no. If reading your own stuff makes you LOL or ROTFL we probably will as well. Send it in.
3. Please format your contributions correctly. Be your own doctors’ assistant and clean up your messes. Check the Medium formatting rules https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/225168768-Writing-and-publishing-a-story, stick to them, then contribute your work to Doctor Funny. Particularly important — make sure your story images are properly credited, captioned and free to use. I (and you too I’ll bet) have zero interest in explaining anything to a judge. The easiest way to avoid all image-related hassles is to use the built-in writing feature on Medium that links you to Unsplash images. Pexels and Pixabay, and others, are other options for snatching hassle-free images to use in your stories.
4. Your work may be edited. Yes, even YOUR work. We at Doctor Funny are not about speaking for you, but we will fix typos, tighten up sentences, correct grammar, etc. or, more likely, ask that you do so. Check out our “write for us” link and read the three stories posted there. This will improve your chances of getting published at, and getting lucky with, Doctor Funny.
5. All literary forms welcome — prose, poems, haiku, limericks, sonnets, song lyrics, cartoons, fiction, nonfiction, you name it. If it’s funny, we want it.
6. Running a Medium pub is a newish (not Jew-ish) venture. We’re learning as we go. If you have suggestions for improvement, or if there are ways Doctor Funny can further your goals and aspirations, please tell us.
7. If you’d like to be otherwise involved in Doctor Funny, pitch it. We don’t “ghost.” We’ll get back to you with a timely response. If we don’t that means we’re in a crumpled heap by the side of the road. Please send out a search party, or perhaps a second gentle inquiry/nudge.
8. Bottom line — Bring out the risus sardonicus, or whatever brand of funny you bring, to all of us.
9. Contact “Doctor Funny” at [email protected] Michael Burg, MD and ask to be added as a writer if you’re not already in the club.
10. That’s it for now, except to say that we’re open to changing things up as we forge ahead and hope that you’ll be part of those changes. Hit us with your contributions, humorously of course, and your suggestions, ideas and your own constructive feedback on how we’re doing and how we can do it better and better.

Let’s grab the bull by the horns, open the floodgates, get this show on the road, and otherwise have fun with a publication full of humor, humour, satire, sarcasm, and all sorts of other bull.