the dramatic [part 1]

sitting at a desk editing a newsletter on a saturday afternoon isn't exactly my idea of fun, and it escapes me how such a mundane task is able to spawn an entire profession in its wakes. from what i've observed, a majority of writing falls into 3 distinct types:

1. flawless, flowing proses that conform to the 5 c's that everyone should strive to achieve in any written work.
2. horrendous, ill-formulated sentences laden with mistakes of all varieties that beg to be either re-written or discarded altogether.
3. average writing that produces occasional, hard to detect mistakes buried deep within the average confines of a decidedly average effort.

if one were to make use of the hay and needle analogy, type 1 could be compared to a bail of hay neatly rolled up in the most orderly of fashions. type 2 would be akin to a pile of needles with a few sparse strands of straw laid out on top of that mess. and what of type 3? yes, a needle in a haystack. unfortunately most writing you see today are of the type 3 variety.

you must be a bit crazy to want to pick out needles in a haystack for a living so to speak. it is therefore in my opinion that people who call themselves "copy-editors" are either obsessive compulsive type characters, or starving under-employed english majors, or very likely both.

what is the moral of the story you might ask. there is none. i simply got a bit too carried away from the intended topic of discussion for today and have since extended this exposition to a 2 part series covering what i believe are some after thoughts since my little foray into... well we shall see.

lately i've been staying away from popular western social media in favor of ones with decidedly asian flavors. and this in turn has led me on to delve deeper into the world of asian cinema...


+listening to: silent sea by kt tunstall