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If you see this, please tell me the worst/most baffling bit of creative feedback you've ever recieved. Mine is still the time somebody told me my aliens had names that were too alien. Not that they were unpronounceable, just that they didn't sound enough like human names.

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Not creative, but it may induce cringe anyway: back when I wrote for a community newspaper, I had an editor who insisted on inserting a "literally" into a metaphor about a funding cut leaving a kitchen-table-themed nonprofit with just two legs to stand on. ie, literally two legs to stand on.

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At another paper, the editor deleted one of my favorite ledes because he didn't get the allusion. The news was that a toll lane which previously waived tolls for carpools of 3 passengers would now charge them. My lede: "Ask not for whom the bill tolls, it tolls for three."

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Ok, I’m willing to accept that he might not know it’s Donne, but to not recognize it at all? Wow.

Ответ для Graham (Gray) Scott

h/t to @quantick.bsky.social