While attending Lansing Breakfast Club last month, I met Philip R. Moon–he writes articles for Cracked.com, as in Cracked Magazine (akin to Mad Magazine for you squares). Cracked switched formats in 2007 and is currently only available online.
Silly Seagull is silly.
More after the break.
I expressed interest in doing the same (I read Cracked Magazine a bunch in my early teens), and was surprised to learn that it is very easy to sign up and pitch articles.
What Cracked.com is looking for when it comes to articles is fact based comedy. For example, Philip had a recent article called 7 Incredible Ways Sports Improved (And Even Saved) Lives.
He lists seven ways sports improved or saved the life of a person, and includes links to the articles he used as a source.
Fun stuff.
Always up for a creative challenge (and getting paid for it doesn’t hurt), I signed up and was added to the ever-growing stable of Cracked.com writers. I have a couple ideas for stories, and I hope I can get something submitted soon.
We have Philip on LansingNext tomorrow to chat about writing for Cracked.com, so make sure to give it a listen (9AM, download the free podcast at 10AM).
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