Listening to the coach?

How often do you take advantage of your writing coach?

 

huh?

 

What's a writing coach? Seriously, how many small papers have writing coaches? Wouldn't that just be your editor?

 

There ain't nobody in our organization who could teach me a damn thing about writing (or any other aspect of journalism). It'd be like Carrot Top lecturing Einstein on how to factor basic equations.

 

I'm sorry to hear that. I guess that means you won a Pulitzer two days ago and even if you did, it doesn't hurt to listen to constructive criticism.

 

I agree with boots. In your original post, Starman, may I suggest that you have Mr. Carrot Top lecturing Einstein on figuring square roots.

Square roots are just funny. I don't know why.

Carry on.

 

It's not so much that I'm a genius; it's that the higher-ups at our joint are uniformly imbeciles.

I do what they say because they're signing the checks, but between the lot of them they don't have the journalistic expertise of a tree stump.

 

I've seen some pretty hard journalistic tree stumps.

 

Sexually?

 

In my journalistic career, among the EEs and esteemed publishers for whom I've worked, I count three tree stumps, a box of rocks, two bags of bent hammers, a rusty shovel, a cast-iron anvil and a couple of guys who knew what they were doing.