What happens...
Mar. 13th, 2009 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heswhen you've been writing DWP drabbles from the start of the month, and these questions just keep turning over and over in your mind. :P
A bit of stream of consciousness that followed through:
The paragraph is/was:
The best [former assistants] were able to deploy their knowledge of the myriad of interpersonal relationships that tied the world together to make a difficult situation appear effortless. A case of who you knew matching and boosting what you knew.
-- taken from my drabble prompt "Tutor" which is part of the ABCs of DWP drabble challenge
I imagine that a year working for Miranda Priestly will put any one of her assistants (no matter how lowly) a head and shoulder above a whole rack of other people so to speak because these assistants control access to MP as much as MP does herself. By that access, they gain power and influence and cachet. I would suspect that MP doesn't mind that since it'll be her patronage (so to speak) after they leave her employ that gives her a continued influence over their careers (at the start). I've seen a few fics touch upon the fact that MP can make or break a career (in the fashion slash publishing industries) but never so much as why and how and it's certainly not just because of her 'list' so to speak.
It's that network/web of former employees in other publications/institutions/fashion whatever's that would place MP at the height of influence and makes her opinion matter more than so many others. She might never ask for something to be published, but she could ask for consideration. Similarly, if she didn't offer an opinion (positive or neutral) then that too would be something that others considered important. (Silence being golden sometimes, and at other times, a death knell for your venture).
I always find it interesting that Emily, so early in the introduction of the movie, speaks of the fact that a year working for MP will let you work anywhere else and yet you could consider the reasons why -- technically this Editrix has multiple layers of management above her and yet, wields a lot more power than those above her...
A bit of stream of consciousness that followed through:
The paragraph is/was:
The best [former assistants] were able to deploy their knowledge of the myriad of interpersonal relationships that tied the world together to make a difficult situation appear effortless. A case of who you knew matching and boosting what you knew.
-- taken from my drabble prompt "Tutor" which is part of the ABCs of DWP drabble challenge
I imagine that a year working for Miranda Priestly will put any one of her assistants (no matter how lowly) a head and shoulder above a whole rack of other people so to speak because these assistants control access to MP as much as MP does herself. By that access, they gain power and influence and cachet. I would suspect that MP doesn't mind that since it'll be her patronage (so to speak) after they leave her employ that gives her a continued influence over their careers (at the start). I've seen a few fics touch upon the fact that MP can make or break a career (in the fashion slash publishing industries) but never so much as why and how and it's certainly not just because of her 'list' so to speak.
It's that network/web of former employees in other publications/institutions/fashion whatever's that would place MP at the height of influence and makes her opinion matter more than so many others. She might never ask for something to be published, but she could ask for consideration. Similarly, if she didn't offer an opinion (positive or neutral) then that too would be something that others considered important. (Silence being golden sometimes, and at other times, a death knell for your venture).
I always find it interesting that Emily, so early in the introduction of the movie, speaks of the fact that a year working for MP will let you work anywhere else and yet you could consider the reasons why -- technically this Editrix has multiple layers of management above her and yet, wields a lot more power than those above her...