You often hear writers say that they don't write for pleasure but out of a sense of compulsion -- they have to write.
But there's a difference between that and being sentenced to write. Pity the poor Bristol-Myers
Squibb exec ordered by New York Judge Ricardo M. Urbina to serve two years' probation, during which he must write a book about his experiences -- including lying to federal officials over the firm's attempt to settle a patent dispute over Plavix, the blood thinner.
Yes, he sentenced sentences.
The New York Times reports Urbina issued a similar sentence in 1998 to a lobbyist who admitted breaking campaign finance laws. Urbina ordered James H. Lake to pay a $150,000 fine and write and distribute at his own cost a monograph about campaign finance laws covering corporate contributions, and distribute it at his own cost to 2,000 fellow lobbyists.
Our particular little writers' prison is already over-crowded, but what the hell, one more can't hurt ...
But there's a difference between that and being sentenced to write. Pity the poor Bristol-Myers
Squibb exec ordered by New York Judge Ricardo M. Urbina to serve two years' probation, during which he must write a book about his experiences -- including lying to federal officials over the firm's attempt to settle a patent dispute over Plavix, the blood thinner.Yes, he sentenced sentences.
The New York Times reports Urbina issued a similar sentence in 1998 to a lobbyist who admitted breaking campaign finance laws. Urbina ordered James H. Lake to pay a $150,000 fine and write and distribute at his own cost a monograph about campaign finance laws covering corporate contributions, and distribute it at his own cost to 2,000 fellow lobbyists.
Our particular little writers' prison is already over-crowded, but what the hell, one more can't hurt ...