General Discussion

I've posted a few things here that I've written, and there's a point where it works, or it doesn't work. I think the pieces I ended up sharing did hit the mark, but I've discarded MANY more pieces than I've posted. It's a challenge to write satire about a guy who is a living, breathing parody of himself, and not in a "ha-ha funny way."

For my tastes, it took an entire Trump term before Andy Borowitz, as an example, "found his footing." A lot of his articles that I read in the first term fell flat or ran out of steam before the "big finish." I think his "hit and miss ratio" is MUCH better in the second term. You sort of have to take all of the rules you apply when writing about anyone else and re-write those rules.