Top 10 Short Humor Writing Mistakes: Advice From an Editor

Alex Baia
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readJun 10, 2019

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I’ve been an editor of Medium’s humor and satire publication, Slackjaw, for about a year now. In that time I’ve read hundreds upon hundreds of short humor submissions.

“Funny” may be hard to define, but good and bad humor writing has clear patterns. (For a more comprehensive humor writing guide, you can find that here.)

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Humor writer, book junkie, stargazer, optimist. Resident philosophy major. Get my humor newsletter: https://alexbaia.com/humor