Things people have done to my writing:
- Set an entire short story in italics
- Awarded me a $100 book voucher for winning the judge’s choice award at the same time as giving $500 to a random person who voted in the people’s choice award
- Left a 3cm-wide blank space between the first three panels of a comic and the rest of it, while also giving the comic two titles, each at right-angles to the other
- Invited me to submit, failed to send a rejection letter, ignored all subsequent email inquiries, but still sent an invitation to the launch
- Added the word “with” to a poem, changing its meaning entirely
- Agreed to illustrate a comic script and then disappeared
- Added an epigram
Things I have done to people’s writing:
- Changed the spelling of “trouper” to “trooper” out of ignorance
- Upset them so much with my intended-as-kooky-fun rejection letter that they reported me to their State Literature Officer
- Missed the “1” that the character-recognition software added to the word “R1cki”
- Published an in-hindsight-illegible handwritten version of their interview answers
- Allowed organisational bureaucracy to post-hoc gut or remove articles entirely
- Arbitrarily rewritten the first sentence of every consecutive paragraph in order to spell out a secret message to myself
The Other Adam Ford 