No, I will not read your f#@king script
Sep. 11th, 2009 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pbrayStolen from everyone, professional screenwriter Josh Olson hits the nail on the head.
The newest version of the trend is the folks I've never met who think I have nothing better to do than to read their self-published or micropress book and then give them a review blurb. Often helpfully sent to me as an attachment, which luckily 9 times out of 10 will land their email in the spam bucket, never to be seen again.
The newest version of the trend is the folks I've never met who think I have nothing better to do than to read their self-published or micropress book and then give them a review blurb. Often helpfully sent to me as an attachment, which luckily 9 times out of 10 will land their email in the spam bucket, never to be seen again.
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Date: 2009-09-11 02:26 pm (UTC)It rarely takes more than a page to recognize that you're in the presence of someone who can write, but it only takes a sentence to know you're dealing with someone who can't.
(By the way, here's a simple way to find out if you're a writer. If you disagree with that statement, you're not a writer. Because, you see, writers are also readers.)
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Date: 2009-09-11 02:45 pm (UTC)I am editing an article right now by two people who can't write. (It's painful. That's why I'm on LJ ... BAD little office worker!!) I edit a lot of such material -- in fact, it's what I mostly do. And sometimes I don't even have to read the first sentence to know the author(s) can't write, because the article title gives it away.
Me too
Date: 2009-09-11 05:33 pm (UTC)Re: Me too
Date: 2009-09-12 04:42 pm (UTC)