veronica_rich: (writer's block)
veronica_rich ([personal profile] veronica_rich) wrote2008-09-19 05:03 pm

September - Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month?

No, really.

So I'll extend it to fellow paid muckrakers and muckraker-adjecents [livejournal.com profile] yoiebear, [livejournal.com profile] beldar (whose birthday is also today), [livejournal.com profile] kahva, [livejournal.com profile] pir8fancier, [livejournal.com profile] potboy, [livejournal.com profile] smtfhw, [livejournal.com profile] tesan, [livejournal.com profile] theorynut, and [livejournal.com profile] curiouslyfic. If you're not on the list, I likely don't know you do this for a living; speak up! :-)

Be nice to your writers, reporters, editors, commentators, and pundits - unless you are one and you want to yell at another one. Then, by all means, tear them a new one; it's your underpaid professional privilege, after all (and there are few enough)! Just don't be surprised if you wake up with a horse's head in your bed ... it'll likely be the one your fellow scoundrel lost more money on at the track.

[identity profile] smtfhw.livejournal.com 2008-09-19 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you reckon we could extend it to be international?

[identity profile] veronica-rich.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
I have decreed it and made it so ...

[identity profile] pir8fancier.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Why do words pay so poorly, I ask you? Writing isn't EASY.

[identity profile] veronica-rich.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, but many people *think* it is. They think because they can string together a few sentences into a paragraph for an e-mail, that they could write a book ... if they really wanted to. Like people who read WebMD all day think they're doctors. *G*