Writers and Editors

Editor #1 watching CNN: Can you imagine how hot JonBenet would be by now?
Editor #2: What?

333 N Meridian Avenue
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Female editor: Hey, is Plastic Man a real superhero?
Assistant: Yeah. There’s been some dispute about his origins, though.
Female editor: Oh, really? But he is real, right?
Assistant: Yeah.
Female editor: Okay, great, thanks.

233 Spring Street,
SoHo, New York

Blocked writer: Do you know how hard it is to write a useful, edifying sermon when you’ve got “Don’t You Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me” stuck in your head?

1701 Delancey
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Anne-Cara

Copywriter: Wow, a list of fictional diseases. Hey, look at this: “Watson’s disease.”
Art Director: Is it an elementary disease?

Level 11, Menara IGB
Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra
59200 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

Supervising Editor: That’s why I hate bananas. They’re just too unpredictable.

2 Penn Plaza
New York, NY

Editor #1: Should we tell the author we lost that whole section of the manuscript?
Editor #2: No, let’s not announce that we’re incompetent.
Editor #1: Yeah, let’s let it be a surprise.

8700 Shoal Creek Boulevard
Austin, Texas

Editor: We don’t have time to review the files. Have the vendors send their files directly to the printer. At this point, we’re approving crap.

8787 Orion Place
Columbus, Ohio

Writer: What the heck is going on with you?
Designer: Why?
Writer: Because I messaged you like three times.
Designer: Oh. I didn’t see it.
Writer: Thank god I wasn’t sending you my suicide note.
Designer: You would do that through Yahoo!?
Writer: I don’t know. Maybe. Is it too informal?
Designer: Kind of. I mean like print it out or something. Then somebody could drop it in my box.
Writer: What font would I even use?

16430 North Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, Arizona

Overheard by: Miel

Editor #1: Did you check these names religiously?
Editor #2: Yeah, he’s praying they’re all right.

2 Holt Steet
Surry Hills, New South Wales
Australia

Marketer: There’s nothing sexy about turkey.
Writer: No.
Marketer: What about, “Need a way to keep from stuffing yourself? Go have an orgasm!”

8885 Venice Boulevard
Los Angeles, California