The difference a night of sleep makes.
I wanted last night to thump my head against the wall. Either that or break out the red pen and bleed it on a document.
I was given a document to review, a training guide to a new program at work. The sales tracking chart the guide explains is in itself fairly self-explanatory. The training guide itself, though, is about as clear as mud with wild shifts in tone, grammar, and sentence structure. In a single paragraph the document might go from The-Voice-On-High to a sympathetic voice and back.
My temptation to edit or rewrite the document (it’s short–less than ten pages) seems to have abated.
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A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over ten years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.
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