small, tightly controlled editing rant

[electricland]

Actually, yes, it does matter whether you put "corticosteroid" or some other drug name entirely on the label of the bottle in this image. Why? Because the drug regimen being studied — as I think is made perfectly clear in the script — had a corticosteroid as one of the components. The drug whose name you chose to put in this image is utterly irrelevant to this page.

Really, it's not that complicated.

Comments

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Deep breath. Deep breath.

[oblomova.livejournal.com]

Consistency may be the bugbear of small minds, but lack thereof has been the death of many.

I'm always amazed at how many mistakes in copy make it past several people before I get it in bluelines.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Oh I know.

We have many very nice artists whose only flaw is a belief that they can type. And spell. Even though English isn't their first language.

I feel better now though. At least I've stuck all the images in the document, even if they're wrong. Now if we can just get the printer working...

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

Someone didn't actually say "what does it matter?" ... did s/he? Ooh, that sort of attitude crawls up my nose. If you're promised a hamburger, do you settle for a hot dog when you know very well that the hamburger is available? *rant*

[electricland.livejournal.com]

No no, it's not as bad as that! (And yes, I agree with you, and it HAS been as bad as that in the past... not this time, fortunately, or I really would be screaming my head off about now.)

I'm just tired of having to explain everything twice. If you don't get it, ASK ME. I will explain it again, and then you can do it right the first time. And she will do everything perfectly for one image and screw up the other seven that are supposed to be exactly the same concept. Argh.

Storyboards are a-printin' as we speak.