i ghost wrote something. it was my pleasure to do so. i wrote it as a first draft, get his ideas, words down on paper so he could edit it, revise it, hone it.

and he did, and i agree with his changes (almost always do). then he sent it out to "others" to review. first to respond did great constructive criticism: pointed out something that was

missing and wrote it up (a sentence to insert) and gave a MUCH better finishing line. perfect. the SECOND to respond.... /me pauses to douse the flames shooting off of me

he says - oh the paragraphs aren't balanced, oh, that one paragraph should skew the other way, oh, make it suggest doing A. but..... not a SINGLE constructive piece of advice on HOW to make those

changes. not a single change in wording, additional sentence, nothing even SPECIFIC in his suggestions. Just a bunch of "oh aren't i so smart to see what's all wrong here". now go and change it.

i'd LOVE to see if he'd say the same thing if the owner had not mentioned in his email that I wrote it.

to me - that kind of response (on a sunday night no less) is geared to (1) show he's working as hard as first responder and (2) is so smart and clever to see all the flaws and has better ideas

but really has nothing about improving what the owner is trying to say or do.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Hmmmm I would take his criticism with a grain of salt... every critic uses his own biases based on how THEY write or want to write etc. Too many cooks... is not a good thing. If you pass it off to 10

critics/edtors you are going to get 10 different critiques.

I totally feel your frustration and I would say, if the edits are unreasonable tell them to write it themselves!!

hugs Thanks GracieKendal I was mostly venting. Once I handed it to the "owner", it's really his decision. It just infuriates me to watch how some of his direct reports act.

ugh yea, I hear ya.

i'm very curious to see how HE reacts to those comments.

breathe

breathes in, breathes out. ohmmmm. yeah, i've been a bit edgy all weekend. so i'm really pleased to say that the author ignored the imo-useless email.

sometimes i just need to blow off the steam - it's not enough to say to myself "oh ignore it". sometimes i need the written scream. thx!