The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
egad, why the hell can't Allyson sign it Allyson Beatrice Buffistas.org?!?! Seriously we're being way beyond pedantic to raise an issue with that. To sign her letter in that way is to identify herself with our organization, it isn't claiming to speak for us as a whole.
Sign it Allyson Beatrice, buffistas.org
Also I think the letter is good as is, my only suggestion is:
The carpenters, costumers, painters, set designers, makeup artists, et. al. are the skilled artisans who bring your words on the page to life on the screen.
I'd cut "on the page" from the sentence as it is used to better effect in the paragraph above it; cutting it here makes both sentences flow better.
Thanks for the edits, guys! Business writing always makes me hurt.
The holiday season is going to be pretty tough for the BTL crew members who are suffering as collateral members of the strike. Both fans and writers have an opportunity to show the Below the Line crew that they are so very important to all of us; without them, all we have is words on a page.
The carpenters, costumers, painters, set designers, makeup artists, et. al. are the skilled artisans who bring your words on the page to life on the screen.
How about:
crew members who are suffering as a result of the strike
Let's give fans and writers an opportunity to show...
Also, et al doesn't have any periods, et because it's not an abbreviation and al for some more obscure reason.
I'd be happy to have it say Allyson, B.org.
Allyson, thanks so much for your work on this and so many other things.
I'd cut "on the page" from the sentence as it is used to better effect in the paragraph above it; cutting it here makes both sentences flow better.
Good point. I like the parallelism, but the repetition of the phrase is unnecessary in such close quarters.
Also, et al doesn't have any periods, et because it's not an abbreviation and al for some more obscure reason.
Oof. Point. I lose.
Scripts are easy for me to mail, P-C. It'll be a one woman operation, and poster tube mailing will make me crazy-o.
I just hope that writers mail stuff to me, or e me to let me know they're coming so I can get this show on the road.
I'm playing phone tag with the Fund people so I can find a way to get a tally and let them know what's doing.
egad, why the hell can't Allyson sign it Allyson Beatrice Buffistas.org?!?! Seriously we're being way beyond pedantic to raise an issue with that. To sign her letter in that way is to identify herself with our organization, it isn't claiming to speak for us as a whole.
Well,
you
don't think it seems that way, but someone might reasonably think it does.
Besides, "way to pedantic" is in our mandate bewteen serial commas and olive salad.
Besides, "way to pedantic"
Way
too
pedantic.
What. It was just sitting there.
egad, why the hell can't Allyson sign it Allyson Beatrice Buffistas.org?!?!
to be clear, since I commented, I don't really care
crew members who are suffering as a result of the strike
The AMPTP already adores blaming the greedy writers for kicking the blue collar workers in the nads. Changing it to the above makes it look like it's all the WGA's fault.
I just want to be careful about the wording.
I don't have a problem with Allyson, buffistas.org. Any member of my company signs stuff Name, company name. If they are an officer or big cheese they say Name, Big Fancy Title, Company Name. It doesn't say Allyson, Chief Stompy, buffistas.org. Without a title it implies just a lowly member to me.
Can't it say Allyson Beatrice, Fandom's Bitch, B.org?
Also, letter looks good. You do good stuff there missy.