You spent hours crafting that blog post, article, or welcome letter and now the rest of the world gets to see your brilliance and humor. Except when you read it on your web site or see it on the printed page you notice your intro paragraph makes absolutely no sense.
It probably did as you were thinking it, and even as you were writing it. But a funny thing can happen between the keyboard and the chair. It's as if an image of what you want to say gets burned into your brain, but somewhere along the way parts of that image fade and not all of your message makes it to the final destination.
The good news is that you can probably unpublish your post or remove the gobbledygook from your site or trash the printed copies and revise that paragraph. And, if you catch it early, there's a good chance not many people have seen it. On the other hand, if it's been up for a while or you've already mailed it, and if it's been shared among a wider audience, you may not have a chance at damage control.
You know where this is going, don't you?
It probably did as you were thinking it, and even as you were writing it. But a funny thing can happen between the keyboard and the chair. It's as if an image of what you want to say gets burned into your brain, but somewhere along the way parts of that image fade and not all of your message makes it to the final destination.
The good news is that you can probably unpublish your post or remove the gobbledygook from your site or trash the printed copies and revise that paragraph. And, if you catch it early, there's a good chance not many people have seen it. On the other hand, if it's been up for a while or you've already mailed it, and if it's been shared among a wider audience, you may not have a chance at damage control.
You know where this is going, don't you?
It's getting drafty in here.
Repeat after me: "No matter what the deadline or how much pressure, I will not send, post, print, or distribute by any means a first draft of anything. Ever."
Repeat after me: "No matter what the deadline or how much pressure, I will not send, post, print, or distribute by any means a first draft of anything. Ever."
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