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Well, it may be that "I can't take it anymore." I'm reconsidering my (volunteer) involvment in an organization whose purpose I find exciting. But they're putting together materials of such poor quality, like a weak website with rambling phrasing and misused apostrophes ("its"--not "it's"...AAAARGH!), that it's embarrassing!
Not everyone can write. It's true the nature of this work is total collaboration, but I wish they'd please please please at least recognize bad writing if it's to be publicized. They poached phrases from my draft and turned concise statements into blathering bromides. A mission statement can't be redundant. It has to be direct.
Now, I appreciate a desire to have a more conversational tone and I could work with that. I am, though, qualified to bring clarity and ultimately strong meaning to the written material. I think of other issues, professional issues like translations that take up a good 33% more text space, which means layout adjustments. Simplicity makes translations easier and cheaper too. I think of volunteers who need to represent this material clearly. Grants? Fat chance getting any "investor's."
So I admit I have some ego attached to my work, but many egos seem to be bringing objectively bad quality into it. I "may-not-be-able" to take it anymore. And that's such a shame.
Well, it may be that "I can't take it anymore." I'm reconsidering my (volunteer) involvment in an organization whose purpose I find exciting. But they're putting together materials of such poor quality, like a weak website with rambling phrasing and misused apostrophes ("its"--not "it's"...AAAARGH!), that it's embarrassing!
Not everyone can write. It's true the nature of this work is total collaboration, but I wish they'd please please please at least recognize bad writing if it's to be publicized. They poached phrases from my draft and turned concise statements into blathering bromides. A mission statement can't be redundant. It has to be direct.
Now, I appreciate a desire to have a more conversational tone and I could work with that. I am, though, qualified to bring clarity and ultimately strong meaning to the written material. I think of other issues, professional issues like translations that take up a good 33% more text space, which means layout adjustments. Simplicity makes translations easier and cheaper too. I think of volunteers who need to represent this material clearly. Grants? Fat chance getting any "investor's."
So I admit I have some ego attached to my work, but many egos seem to be bringing objectively bad quality into it. I "may-not-be-able" to take it anymore. And that's such a shame.
I think all writers have some ego attached to their work, if we are honest, but I do know how you feel about someone taking what you worked so hard to craft and destroying it completely. I've had lawyers do that to me at work when the writing is only the dull nonfiction that is contract and RFP language. They're supposed to be better at this than I am!
I think all writers have some ego attached to their work, if we are honest, but I do know how you feel about someone taking what you worked so hard to craft and destroying it completely. I've had lawyers do that to me at work when the writing is only the dull nonfiction that is contract and RFP language. They're supposed to be better at this than I am!
Oh, lawyers are the worst collaborators. Protecting interests is obviously important, but the purpose of most documents is to communicate. It's not to cover your ***. To clarify a statement you oftn just need to add one word, not a whole rambling clause. K.I.S.S. a lawyer and it'll turn into a M.E.S.S. (meandering, enigmatic sentence structure).
I told a friend about this thread, and today she emailed me one she sees on craigslist a lot in the real estate section: "rod iron".
Every time I see rod iron on Craig's List I am reminded of my cousin, when she was in high school, with her naughty pine bedroom. I think most of us made some mistakes when we were still in school and of course she never did it again after I corrected her.
Every time I see rod iron on Craig's List I am reminded of my cousin, when she was in high school, with her naughty pine bedroom. I think most of us made some mistakes when we were still in school and of course she never did it again after I corrected her.
Thank you, I needed a laugh today!
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