THE PERILS OF HITTING REPLY

I just drafted some notes for my agent to respond to a producer, and hit "reply." Unfortunately the original email was from the producer. So off the notes when to the producer.

Hah!

Oops!

Fortunately, as it turned out, the email was 95% my arguments for why I should get what I asked for, not what the producer was proposing, so if he reads the email (we asked him to delete it, but who would do that?) it's actually good. I only mentioned two possible compromises, on minor points -- and my agent would have got around to mentioning them sooner or later anyway. So no harm done, I think.

This is a good reason to write all your emails as if they will get read by the wrong side anyway. Because sooner or later, one will.