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Melissa
From: Dana Worley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: tcp@techcommpros.com
Subject: [TCP] Technical writers may shape future of American lit
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:01:55 -0600
While I'm not a member of the STC :), I get a couple of the
Intermountain Chapter's mass mailings. They provided
Melissa Nelson wrote:
I think the boss is always right in the same way the customer is always
right! Often times, both are wrong, but often times to keep them happy...we
do not point out how wrong they are. I think it is really a case of picking
your battles. Some battles are not worth the
Yes, it's about picking battles, but if my boss is wrong, I usually
explain why. A little knowledge - not ridicule - goes a long way.
On 6/13/07, Melissa Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the boss is always right in the same way the customer is always
right! Often times, both are wrong,
Donna Jone wrote:
Al, are you trying to tell us that honesty pays? Where are you getting
such nonsense?
I was younger and a lot more naïve and innocent back thena lot
younger
Al Geist
Technical Writing, Help, Marketing Collateral, Web Design and Award Winning
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On 6/6/07, Dana Worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know several creative/tech writers as well.
8 )
I thought this comment was interesting:
I think technical writing is probably in some ways, in many
important ways, a better education for a creative writer than creative
writing, he said.
On 6/6/07, Chris Borokowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the writers I mentioned is someone I work with
on a daily basis. He does not like the term creative
writing, and prefers fiction, and is of the opinion
that the worst thing a writer can do is spend time in
creative writing classes.
On 6/7/07, Dori Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...and not fuss around with self-indulgent sillinesses such as
writer's block (from which no successful creative writer suffers).
From my reading, it seems clear that many successful creative writers
wrestle with writers block, some more than others,
Orson Scott Card has probably the most famous example from the sci-fi
side of things. He says that when he runs into writer's block, he
views it as a sign that he's going down the wrong path, and he treats
it as a tool, a mechanism that alerts him when he has somehow gone
off-track. Instead
Rhonda Bracey wrote:
...it's obvious that tech writing in one form or another has
been around for a long time.
Technical writing was around longer, but I don't think the job title
technical writer was coined until somewhat more recently. Weren't many
early technical writers deemed typists? In
John Garison wrote:
You could make an argument that some of the Romans (Julius Caesar and
Claudius among them) were doing technical writing when describing how to
build fortifications, aqueducts, ports, and the like.
Joe Chapline was the very first person whose full time job was Software
writers may shape future of American lit
John Garison wrote:
You could make an argument that some of the Romans (Julius Caesar and
Claudius among them) were doing technical writing when describing how to
build fortifications, aqueducts, ports, and the like.
Joe Chapline was the very first
Just a personal observation -- technical and creative writing call upon the
same craftsmanship (use of language, planning, outlining, adjusting when the
project runs away with itself). TW is great practice for a CW because it
instills the discipline to _write_ and not fuss around with
It was a guide to how to operate the ENIAC system ... perhaps not what
we would call an operating system today, but it was a guide to how to
operate the ENIAC system and its software. Lots of hardware though. I
took a look at the document - Joe was a speaker at a conference I put
together -
writers may shape future of American lit
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:01:55 -0600
While I'm not a member of the STC :), I get a couple of the
Intermountain Chapter's mass mailings. They provided a link to an
interesting article in the Deseret News (a Salt Lake paper):
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view2
Melissa Nelson wrote:
She has inspired me, although I never seem to get past the carrying
around a
notebook in my purse and jotting down ideas phase! :(
You've made it to the carrying a notebook phase? Wow! I've been stuck
in the I really should carry a notebook phase for years now. :0)
Donna
While I'm not a member of the STC :), I get a couple of the
Intermountain Chapter's mass mailings. They provided a link to an
interesting article in the Deseret News (a Salt Lake paper):
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view2/1,4382,660226327,00.html?textfiel
d=Scott+Hatch
or
He's not the only one. I know of two TWs who write
literature on the side. One has self-published three
books, and the other has been published in several
short story journals.
--- Dana Worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While I'm not a member of the STC :), I get a couple
of the
Intermountain
On Wednesday, June 06, 2007, Chris Borokowski wrote:
The best writer I personally knew said that if you were a good talker,
and knew a good story, the rest was research and practice. There may be
a creative writer inside many of us.
I've always felt that my talking got better after I became
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dana Worley
While I'm not a member of the STC :), I get a couple of the
Intermountain Chapter's mass mailings. They provided a link to an
interesting article in the Deseret News (a Salt Lake paper):
Good he doesn't assign readings from Microsoft manuals... Those are
hard finds, and I can only imagine the school bookstore markup on
those puppies! ;-)
On 6/6/07, Dana Worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While I'm not a member of the STC :), I get a couple of the
Intermountain Chapter's mass
Personally, I think technical writing is easy but I wouldn't even
consider tackling any type of creative writing. Maybe I'm not as good
at observing life as I am observing a piece of software :)
what do you mean, Dana? They're not the same? Wow. My reality is shattered.
--
Bill Swallow
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what do you mean, Dana? They're not the same? Wow. My reality is
shattered.
Bill, have you been doing marketing writing again?
Is it that obvious? ;)
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Senior Member STC, TechValley Chapter
STC Single-Sourcing SIG Manager
Subject: Re: [TCP] Technical writers may shape future of American lit
i thought it was the second oldest profession, just under
prostitution... No pun intended.
On 6/6/07, Dan Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I dunno. I stopped reading as soon as I got to the fallacy, Technical
writing didn't
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