T.H. Oughts
Oh the thoughts of Oughts
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Just before Christmas I mailed a draft hard copy (no pun) of an erotic story I had written to another writer friend of mine to proof for me. There were 5 pages of typed words in the story. Anyway my friend misplaced the papers and has spend the last few weeks looking for them. Yesterday they showed up!
To cut a long story short. My friend had by accident slipped them into an envelope with an article she had written for a magazine and mailed my story with her article !!!!! We both happen to write for this magazine and the editor recognised the font I had written the story in as in is an unusual font I use for everything, also some of my hand writing around the margins.
Anyway. The editor rings my friend and asks what the story was doing in with her article. My friend said sorry and the editor and her had a good laugh about it.
But, then the editor rings me without me knowing all this had happened and asks me why when I had sent my last article to her before Christmas which she had just got around to looking at, that I had decided that an erotic story would be better for the magazine, than the art based article I was meant to have written. She read out load the first two sentences from the story so I knew she did have a copy of it.
So of course I panicked at the non friendly tone of her voice, considering this editor and I have a good relationship and joke quite often. Then after about 30 seconds of me going uummmm and thinking "holy shit, I will never be working for this mag again". She cracks up laughing and says to me, "If I am editor of an erotic magazine I’ll call you, lol"
So moral of the story is: I don’t really have a clue, but be careful where your manuscript ends up!
To cut a long story short. My friend had by accident slipped them into an envelope with an article she had written for a magazine and mailed my story with her article !!!!! We both happen to write for this magazine and the editor recognised the font I had written the story in as in is an unusual font I use for everything, also some of my hand writing around the margins.
Anyway. The editor rings my friend and asks what the story was doing in with her article. My friend said sorry and the editor and her had a good laugh about it.
But, then the editor rings me without me knowing all this had happened and asks me why when I had sent my last article to her before Christmas which she had just got around to looking at, that I had decided that an erotic story would be better for the magazine, than the art based article I was meant to have written. She read out load the first two sentences from the story so I knew she did have a copy of it.
So of course I panicked at the non friendly tone of her voice, considering this editor and I have a good relationship and joke quite often. Then after about 30 seconds of me going uummmm and thinking "holy shit, I will never be working for this mag again". She cracks up laughing and says to me, "If I am editor of an erotic magazine I’ll call you, lol"
So moral of the story is: I don’t really have a clue, but be careful where your manuscript ends up!
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