Define 'frustration'
19/07/06 11:12 Coffee machine moments
I've just had one of
those ordinary things happen to me that are
nonetheless truly annoying.
A few weeks ago I was offered an interview with a minor celebrity - emphasis on the 'minor' but never mind. She's setting up in business and it sounded vaguely sellable. So I sent out a few mails and didn't give it much more thought.
Then yesterday the features editor of a national paper gets back to me with a 'yes please'. It was for the main features section and this might have opened a new market for me - might have opened up all sorts of new markets, you never know. The word rate was superb. I was what we call in the trade 'motivated' - which isn't a bad thing in this heat.
Only, when I get back to the PRs, they tell me that the same paper's business section already has a piece going in. So I get back to my commissioning editor - and there's no criticism, he couldn't possibly have known about it - and understandably his view is that the pre-existing interview in the same paper kills the piece stone dead.
One of those things, certainly, but damn. Damn, damn, damn.
A few weeks ago I was offered an interview with a minor celebrity - emphasis on the 'minor' but never mind. She's setting up in business and it sounded vaguely sellable. So I sent out a few mails and didn't give it much more thought.
Then yesterday the features editor of a national paper gets back to me with a 'yes please'. It was for the main features section and this might have opened a new market for me - might have opened up all sorts of new markets, you never know. The word rate was superb. I was what we call in the trade 'motivated' - which isn't a bad thing in this heat.
Only, when I get back to the PRs, they tell me that the same paper's business section already has a piece going in. So I get back to my commissioning editor - and there's no criticism, he couldn't possibly have known about it - and understandably his view is that the pre-existing interview in the same paper kills the piece stone dead.
One of those things, certainly, but damn. Damn, damn, damn.
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