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- From: saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski)
- Subject: Re: "Wow! You're a writer?"
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:28:09 GMT
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- In article <s0067284.713623707@ursa>, s0067284@ursa.calvin.edu (Jeffrey Veen) writes:
- |> casey@well.sf.ca.us (Kathleen Creighton) writes:
- |>
- |> > The rewards are rarely
- |> >financial. This doesn't bother me particularly, though, since I have no
- |> >desire to support myself full-time with my writing, at which point it would
- |> >just become a "hustle" for me.
- |> >--
- |> >Kathleen Creighton
- |>
- |> What exactly doe you mean by "hustle?" Are you implying that the only writing
- |> worth bothering with is that done mearly for pleasure? Is writing for money
- |> therefore become "evil" because your motives are commercial?
- |>
- |> Jeff
- |> s0067284@calvin.edu
- |>
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- Gee, I hope not. Speaking as someone who writes *primarily* for the
- money, I would feel hurt if people thought what I did was evil. It's
- not, but sometimes my syntax gets out of hand a little. 8*)
-
- On the other hand, when I tell people I'm a writer, and elaborate by
- explaining that I write manuals for computer software, nobody ever tells
- me they liked what I've written. In fact, very few people have ever read
- what I've written, and they still get mad at *me* for bad computer
- manuals that OTHER people have written. Many of them begin to berate me,
- though I never let that go very far before responding in my own defense.
-
- Any other technical writers out there suffer through THAT scenario
- before?
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- | Len Olszewski | "Just because some of us can read |
- | Technical Writer | and write and do a little math, |
- | saslpo@unx.sas.com | that doesn't mean we deserve to |
- | "Have cursor, will curse." | conquer the universe." |
- | | - Kurt Vonnegut |
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- | Opinions this ludicrous are mine. Reasonable opinions will cost you.|
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