User talk:Cendar1212

Were you 132.161.158.208 earlier? You made the same change.

Anyway, based on what you continued to try putting in without really discussing or providing source info for, I revised the wording slightly. It's true she doesn't explicitly say she wants to write novels, short stories or plays, so I changed it to "write for The New Yorker", which she does state explicitly. But unlike in the film, there is nothing about her having worked at the college paper.

Relevant passages are

From page 10, about what she did in college and its relation to her current job: Four years spent muddling around Providence in fleeces and hiking boots, learning about the French impressionists and writing obnoxiously long-winded English papers did not — in any conceivable way — prepare me for my first post-college job. From the next page, about what she wants to do with her life: Although I knew I was highly unlikely to be hired at The New Yorker'' directly out of school, I was determined to be writing for them before my fifth reunion. It was all I'd ever wanted to do, the only place I'd ever wanted to work.'' CTTOI, what this discussion has also led me to do is clarify that she had (and wants) the newspaper job she eventually gets at the end of the movie ... the Andrea of the book had nothing to do with newspapers.

I had put that in because (and we can't say this in the article) it creates a slight credibility problem for the film for anyone even a little in the know. Any former college newspaper editor seeking a job in journalism in New York is at least going to get interviewed at a few places; the former editor of the Northwestern (a college with a renowned J-school) paper is probably going to wind up at least at one of the tabloids and maybe even the Times. At the very least she'd have made connections before even graduating and not had to go through all that BS. Whereas it's far more believable that the Andrea of the book would be in that situation.

Thanks for the prompt. If you want to continue editing, I really suggest you use edit summaries and discuss things like this on article talk pages ... often people monitor them (as I do). It's considered the polite way to go about things (WP:BOLD not always withstanding). Daniel Case 13:56, 22 April 2007 (UTC)