Manuscript Wrangler Pillows

Storm in the out tray

Organization is not rocket science!

"Because, dang it, even cowgirls deserve a little 'me' time."

Trays on desk read, 'Here', 'There' and, 'Neither here nor there.'

"Oh great, the printer is down."

"No—You're thinking dog years—Editor years are twice as many."

'ACE Heating and cooling' 'What's Hot' 'What Not'

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

InIn by-products.

'So, come back in fifteen minutes?...Twenty?'

'There! Now he's tied to my satisfaction and ready for surgery!'

"For this job, we require someone with excellent multi-taxing skills."

'Ah, the Bermuda Rectangle for files.'

"We need a better piling system."

'No good deed goes unpunished around here.'

Sue's job involved a certain amount of paperwork.

In/Out.

"See, that's the problem with you new breed. You take rejection too personally."

Overwhelmed by Paperwork

'Miscellaneous' and 'Non-Miscellaneous' trays

"My dog always knows when it's about to rain."

'I can't remember the title,but it was on a little white piece of paper.'

"You call this a brief. It's thirty pages long."

'Excellent sir! Your signature is now completely illegible.'

'Ms. Grimmett, I sort of liked the old filing system...in the file cabinets.'

'I can grant you 3 wishes as long as none of them are about getting up on the furniture.'

'Your manuscript was delicious.'

'Good news, Perkins! We're finally getting an automatic postage machine!'

Research continues to discover if the inability to balance a checkbook is genetic.

Bureaucratic castle

"It appears that Jim is organizing his desk again."

"I have a system."

'Bill, we've decided to send you back to the minors for a while so you can brush up on your delegating!'