my job is great, and it's about to get even greater. i love my job, mostly because i get to spend my days writing, which i love to do. my job allows me to be creative and to tell stories, which is obviously the kind of writing i most love to do.
sometimes my stories are posted to the web. today, a particular story, which was well written, engaging and just heart-tugging enough, was posted online. after a bunch of non-writers in the building got their hands on it. herein is a struggle we writers have with non-writers: because we do it so well and so easily, they believe that they, too, can write as well and as easily. which, of course, non-writers generally cannot.
now if the non-writers had made suggestions/changes that actually added something or improved the writing or story, i'm all for that. who doesn't love some constructive criticism? but no. the non-writers made changes that made the writing a bit vague, a bit ho-hum, a bit dumbed-down, if you will. there are now a couple of run on sentences where i had none. there are missing commas. there is unclarity for unclarity's sake.
of course these changes will stay, online, until we have a meeting at some point in the future to talk about why these kinds of changes won't work (there's an approval process at the place i work that is insane – seriously, how many people need to sign off on one story? you'd be amazed). most non-writers just can't understand that when you read something for approval, you aren't being given license to rewrite it just to rewrite it. you're looking at facts, your looking at the larger picture, you're look at it to ensure the information contained within is correct.
if you can't proof your own emails before you send them out, if you don't know how to correctly use a semi-colon, and if you can't identify a run-on sentence, you seriously should not be changing my copy.
snobbish? you bet.
porque las palabras son tan muy bonitas justo.
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reading...
- beloved [again]
- walker percy
- the new yorker [...will i ever catch up?]
- the portable dorothy parker [yes, i know it's been awhile, but it's huge]
wanting...
- a visit from vegan no. 2
- a trip to spain [this is obviously a permanent wish]
- an outdoor swimming pool [ditto]
- a summer with less humidity [never going to happen]
viewing...
- juno
- freaks & geeks
- the closer
- californication
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