Hey everybody, time once again to play every writer’s favorite game: PARSE THAT SENTENCE!
So take a machete and start cutting through the passive voice in this baby, as seen in the previous posting and the latest news from the Writers Guild to their constituency:
“In order to make absolutely clear our commitment to bringing a speedy conclusion to negotiations, we have decided to withdraw our proposals on reality and animation. Our organizing efforts to achieve Guild representation in these genres for writers will continue. You will hear more about this in the next two weeks.”
Yowza! They withdrew something to make something else absolutely clear, but who the hell knows what? I’ll hear more about it in the next two weeks, but I sure as hell won’t understand!
I have an idea, why not run these little missives by a couple of out-of-work writers before shipping them off to Nikki Finke? Until then, if you have a stereo manual that needs a punch-up, call the Guild! The prolix prosing will obfuscate, and boy will it hurt!
