3. When Someone Else Gets To A Scoop You Were *This* Close To
Feel the burn. We all have an innate protectiveness when it comes to sharing a scoop. Especially when a colleague is overly-interested in what you're doing. Filthy hobbitses get your own preciouses!
2. Weekends? What Is This Wizardry You Speak Of?
Hands up if you've had a full nights sleep since the Bronze Age? The smell of tumbleweed pollutes the air. While all your friends are out partying, socialising, rollerblading, sheep-herding (or whatever people get up to these days); you're sat at a computer screen, face like Severus Snape, barely flinching as you inject coffee directly into a main artery.
1. Spotting A Typo In Your Own Work
So you've sent a story to publish. Wonderful. Then you notice that minor typo you've made, days after it's gone live. Crushing despair, imminent. The Microsoft red squiggles in your mind entwine to form an Alphabet Soup of pain. Regardless of whether you proofread the piece til your eyeballs bled, that pesky error can still slip through the wisest of writers and copy editors. Don't worry though - if you're a digital journalist, the Internet is full of wonderful sarcastic pedants who will put you just right. As for the grammar Nazis: they will hunt you down, and they will destroy you from within. Then you will destroy yourself... and all because of one cursed typo.
