See the post below this one? The one about its/it's confusion, in which I used the example of an error made by a major publishing house as an example of how even the "best" of us get it wrong, sometimes?
You all understood that the "major publishing house" wasn't me, didn't you? I mean, I thought I'd made it pretty clear that the advertisement containing the rogue apostrophe was an example someone had sent me, and not a mistake I'd made myself, but apparently not because today I received an email from someone berating me for "my" mistake, and telling me I desperately needed an editor, and should hire them.
The person went on to tell me all about their writing experience and all of the "high points" in their freelance writing career, presumably to covince me they were the right person for the (non-existent) job. Sadly, the email they sent me wasn't one of those "high points": it was written entirely in lower case, and the writing quality was poor to say the least. So, not only had the person completely misunderstood my post (always a bad sign for someone who wants to be an editor), they'd also insulted me with their rudeness and displayed the writing skills of a young child.
Clearly, none of this would make me want to employ someone, and I replied to tell them so. It's OK, though, folks, because, guess what? The person was just joking! Yes, that's right, they were being "funny", and had done it in order to "get my attention".
Well, they got it alright - but not in a good way. When I told them this, though, they replied to say that I have no sense of humour.
Right. Got it. It's my fault. I just need to get a sense of humour! Whew!
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Received this morning:
It always goes the exact same way.
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be an actress when I grew up.
This week's freelance writing poll is now up - you can see it in the sidebar to the right of this post, and as you can see, this week we're continuing with our quest to find out what the "average" rate is for various freelance writing projects by asking the question, "What do you charge for one hour of sales-based copywriting?"
