Sort-of-fic: Excerpts from the Stargate Command Style Sheet for Mission Reports (Gen, G)

[marag]

Title: Excerpts from the Stargate Command Style Sheet for Mission Reports
Genre: Humor
Notes: This is Penknife's fault, I swear. By the way, I welcome additions to this style sheet, if you have any thoughts on what this poor editor must see every day.

Comments

[wiliqueen]

It's "zat'nik'tel," IIRC.

This is...actually not all that far off from the style guide we developed for the licensed RPG. And boy, wasn't that a fun process...

[wiliqueen]

The funniest thing about the RPG was that our Fearless Leaders, when we coudln't reach an agreement on something, would always be like "We'll ask the MGM people when they vet the book." And I'm going, "Um, you do know you're talking about an underpaid marketing intern with a series bible in one hand and a Red Bull in the other, right?"

And they insisted that noooooo, the people reviewing the game materials were TOTES involved in production and connected to canon adn all that good stuff. And then we would get the Word From On High back from MGM, and I would laugh and laugh and laugh at this image.

[marag]

::laughs:: It's a law that any style guide must have a minimum of two errors :D

[marag]

::snerk:: It's true, that word is impossible to pronounce.

[bugeyedmonster]

lol!

[marag]

::grin:: Thanks!

[devildoll]

Reports must be written in the active--not passive--voice. That is, "my team blew up the enemy's bunker" is correct. "The enemy bunker was blown up" is only correct if you could not identify the culprit even under oath during a court martial.

Heeheehee! *loves*

[marag]

::giggles:: Thank you!

[fantasyenabler]

My poor husband wants to know where he can kidnap find this poor editor. When his agents turn in their mission reports, no cleans them up for him. He's stuck sending them back to the agent-in-charge to be cleaned up before they're sent up the food chain.

If I read one more sentence like "the team went deeper into the teample," I will scream. At you.

He has a variation on this. It's "I will taser you." :)

[marag]

I've been tempted on many occasions to write something like this for real, so this was a nice outlet for me :D