Oh, see, I don't fuck around with people who haven't turned in stories. I don't beg them to turn in stories, I don't give them extensions, nada. If I don't get the story at the time it is due, I send the request to a pinch hitter.
As for the question of whether or not I would get a pinch hitter for a story for me ... it would depend on how badly I was hurting for pinch hitters and whether or not any of the pinch hitters would be people I particularly wanted to write me a story. I mean, herding pinch hitters is work too, and at the point where I'm trying to get stories, I'm all about reducing work. So, it really would depend on whether the trouble of assigning a pinch hitter to me (having something else to track, not being able to use the pinch hitter for someone else who needs a story) would be worth the story I'm getting in return.
If I did send a 'yo, slacker!' letter, I'd be using a template, and I'd just cut and paste the same text as I did for everybody else. It's not so much a question of "I did this for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" as "Fucker, somebody wrote you a story, you have to play the game, too!"
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Date: 2007-04-02 11:19 pm (UTC)As for the question of whether or not I would get a pinch hitter for a story for me ... it would depend on how badly I was hurting for pinch hitters and whether or not any of the pinch hitters would be people I particularly wanted to write me a story. I mean, herding pinch hitters is work too, and at the point where I'm trying to get stories, I'm all about reducing work. So, it really would depend on whether the trouble of assigning a pinch hitter to me (having something else to track, not being able to use the pinch hitter for someone else who needs a story) would be worth the story I'm getting in return.
If I did send a 'yo, slacker!' letter, I'd be using a template, and I'd just cut and paste the same text as I did for everybody else. It's not so much a question of "I did this for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" as "Fucker, somebody wrote you a story, you have to play the game, too!"