X account: it's also about precision on that note -- one of my #1 rules for writing blurbs (drawn from opeds & countless pitches) is what I call the "fungibility rule": - can you swap in another company name in the blurb, or someone else's byline onto the piece? if so, needs more work
X account @smc90 shares its “substitutability rule”: if copy can easily have the company name or attribution replaced, it still needs refinement.
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it's also about precision
on that note -- one of my #1 rules for writing blurbs (drawn from opeds & countless pitches) is what I call the "fungibility rule":
- can you swap in another company name in the blurb, or someone else's byline onto the piece?
if so, needs more work
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it's also about precision
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on that note -- one of my #1 rules for writing blurbs (drawn from opeds & countless pitches) is what I call the "fungibility rule":
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- can you swap in another company name in the blurb, or someone else's byline onto the piece?
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if so, needs more work
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