http://www.mindtoss.com/2009/09/09/hey-starbucks-fire-your-copywriter/ mindtoss is the personal blog of stephen chip, a creative director living and working in boca raton, florida Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:01:29 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.mindtoss.com/2009/09/09/hey-starbucks-fire-your-copywriter/comment-page-1/#comment-6616 HB Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:39:10 +0000 http://www.mindtoss.com/?p=549#comment-6616 Ummmmm, even with your editing, isn't the second sentence incomplete? Or, is that punctuation a comma and not a period? Gosh, I've seen a lot of this type of unacceptable copy writing here in New York that I've often corrected as part of my low paying job. Then, the 'writer' sends the bill for the 'writing,' and they receive absurd amounts of money, like $7,000 for 2 days work, and I've had to entirely re-write their crummy work so that it at least makes sense. Oh, and does it really take two days to create a badly written paragraph? Ummmmm, even with your editing, isn’t the second sentence incomplete? Or, is that punctuation a comma and not a period? Gosh, I’ve seen a lot of this type of unacceptable copy writing here in New York that I’ve often corrected as part of my low paying job. Then, the ‘writer’ sends the bill for the ‘writing,’ and they receive absurd amounts of money, like $7,000 for 2 days work, and I’ve had to entirely re-write their crummy work so that it at least makes sense. Oh, and does it really take two days to create a badly written paragraph?

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