Mark Elswick, aka "Padman," has overcome the hurdles of fatherhood and lived to write about them in this humorous collection of short stories based on his own experiences as a man dealing with women, especially his daughter. Whether it's having to go to the store to buy those...um, feminine hygiene products for his daughter, worrying over the older man his daughter wants to date, or just accepting that he's reached middle-age and is becoming an old man, readers will smile with familiarity at the incidents, sympathizing with Elswick's feelings and admiring his pluck to keep going in the face of what often threatens his manhood or at least his masculine self-esteem.
Nor is Elswick above poking fun at himself. While he may be amazed and stunned by the things the women around him do, he ultimately laughs at his own reactions to events and the expectations women have of him. When he tries to outsmart women such as by "multi-tasking" (watching the game while changing his daughter's diaper), his efforts have a tendency to backfire, ultimately to his and the reader's amusement.
This means that there is a big opportunity for writers, and regardless of whether you self-publish on your own blog or website, or using web 2.0 sites like squidoo or hubpages, or if you sell your work to publish, you can capitalize on this opportunity.
As with any other kind of writing, the first and most important thing that you must do is to think about your market. Writing election humor articles which support a particular position or candidate can provide you with an easy to reach target market, but do not think that this is the only way to go about it, and you should be aware that in doing this you are also limiting your potential readership.
"At that point, I stopped exhaling and even stopped breathing. What I grasped in my right hand was what I had thought was a string. Now, I quickly realized it was no string at all. As I brought what I thought belonged in my daughter's shoe to eye level, I felt it was nearly the worst Dad Moment in my parenting life. I could have screamed when I realized this "string" in no way resembled what I had originally thought.
"That tiny piece of string made me feel as nauseated as when I had discovered what With Wings meant. "That shoestring was...one of my fourteen-year-old daughter's thongs. "As I had learned in my Padman adventure, there are certain things we men never want to run across in life. This one ranked right up there with catching your parents having sex."
If you can both inform people (of the facts not of your own political theories and preferences) and entertain them at the same time then you will find that you have an excellent chance of being very successful, and you will be greatly increasing the chances of people sharing and recommending your work.
Nor is Elswick above poking fun at himself. While he may be amazed and stunned by the things the women around him do, he ultimately laughs at his own reactions to events and the expectations women have of him. When he tries to outsmart women such as by "multi-tasking" (watching the game while changing his daughter's diaper), his efforts have a tendency to backfire, ultimately to his and the reader's amusement.
This means that there is a big opportunity for writers, and regardless of whether you self-publish on your own blog or website, or using web 2.0 sites like squidoo or hubpages, or if you sell your work to publish, you can capitalize on this opportunity.
As with any other kind of writing, the first and most important thing that you must do is to think about your market. Writing election humor articles which support a particular position or candidate can provide you with an easy to reach target market, but do not think that this is the only way to go about it, and you should be aware that in doing this you are also limiting your potential readership.
"At that point, I stopped exhaling and even stopped breathing. What I grasped in my right hand was what I had thought was a string. Now, I quickly realized it was no string at all. As I brought what I thought belonged in my daughter's shoe to eye level, I felt it was nearly the worst Dad Moment in my parenting life. I could have screamed when I realized this "string" in no way resembled what I had originally thought.
"That tiny piece of string made me feel as nauseated as when I had discovered what With Wings meant. "That shoestring was...one of my fourteen-year-old daughter's thongs. "As I had learned in my Padman adventure, there are certain things we men never want to run across in life. This one ranked right up there with catching your parents having sex."
If you can both inform people (of the facts not of your own political theories and preferences) and entertain them at the same time then you will find that you have an excellent chance of being very successful, and you will be greatly increasing the chances of people sharing and recommending your work.
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