Send Us Your Stories
What is this?
Here at Not Very Famous we’re hoping to build a community of like-minded individuals who want to share their own brand of humor. Make friends! Be poor! See the world through the eyes of fellow imbeciles!
What kind of stories do you want?
We’re looking for humorous pieces that border on incomprehensible nonsense, as the Founder of Not Very Famous is himself unhinged and, at times, unbearably goofy. This can be in the form of fiction, poems, seminars on the meat packing industry and whatever else you think is worthy to pass before our hallowed eyes.
- Try to include a picture with your story. We recommend using unsplash.com as a starting point, due to those images being free to use. Extra points for editing the picture to fit with the tone of the humor being conveyed. Give credit for copyrighted images or you will probably die.
- Heck, you can even include links to audio versions of a story within your actual piece. This makes people happy and warm and then there will be world peace.
- For the love of Xanadu, please use proper grammar and correct spelling. Not sure that a sentence you wrote is grammatically accurate? Use something called Google to check. Made up words are acceptable if they fit within the context of your story.
- Don’t plagiarize, idiot. You can quote from other articles or works of literature, but please give attribution where attribution is due.
What kind of stories do you NOT want?
We will NOT accept or even consider anything about politics, socially controversial dung heaps, jokes charged with hatred or poop with even a hint of racism. Get that crap outta here, freakshow! Just try to be funny without being some kinda dang pot-mixer-upper ne’er-do-well.
What can you not stress enough?
We cannot stress enough that writing primarily to receive recognition and fame are not part of our game, sweet baby turtle. If you like to write humor just to write humor and think people will make giggling noises because of it, we want to hear what you have to say. Don’t expect us to promote your work so that everyone involved makes a billion dollars and we can all buy tigers or something.
This is a free place to be humorous without feeling literary pressure.
How do I send stuff to Not Very Famous?
Send a link of your draft to notfamouswriters@gmail.com. Once you’ve been added as a writer, feel free to submit to Not Very Famous by clicking the ‘…’ thing on a story and adding your post to our publication.
Please submit a maximum of 1 story per week. This might change in the future. Who knows? Not me. No one knows. Ok, this changed. Just send however often you want.
Will my story be published?
Maybe.
Now get to writing and send any complaints or comments to notfamouswriters@gmail.com. We look forward to making fun of you.
