The following was my introduction project to the creative directors at The Richards Group. I left each of them this letter with a big red pen.
The Red Pen.
It’s every writer’s nightmare, but a necessary one—‘tough love’ as they say. The Red Pen is like a paddle with holes, stings like a bitch and then you have some nice marks to remind you. Totally necessary.
I can only hope someone has tough love enough to read my pop-culture, pun, and cliché laden headlines and rip them apart so we can then enjoy a subjective argument over the correct usage of an em dash; it’ll make me stronger. So here’s the tool, just give me something to write, I’ll messy it up, and then you can rip it to shreds. Good deal eh?
Thanks,
Krystha Barrera
(The only copy intern, & the only Krystha in the building)
13th floor/ext. 5730