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- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: "Wow! You're a writer?"
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.231307.36902@datamark.co.nz>
- From: tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer)
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:13:07 GMT
- References: <BsuMty.JC4@well.sf.ca.us> <s0067284.713623707@ursa> <BsvK6y.341@unx.sas.com>
- Organization: Datamark International Ltd.
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- In article <BsvK6y.341@unx.sas.com> saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski) writes:
- >
- >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*)
-
- I don't write primarily for the money - I do it because the place
- where I work has Usenet access.
-
- [description of tech writer bashing deleted]
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- >Any other technical writers out there suffer through THAT scenario
- >before?
-
- Yes! My line is, "It's a dirty job but someone has to do it."
-
- I even got some mail the other day which said the following:
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- "Your writing SOFTWARE MANUALS... Don't you have any pride at all?"
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- It's obvious that we're just misunderstood.
- --
- Thomas Farmer | tfarmer@datamark.co.nz or | Amiga 2.04, AIX 3.1
- Datamark Intl Ltd | tfarmer@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz | Win 3.1, OS/2 2.0
- Technical Writer | Vote MMP!
- & PC Wrangler | If I had something witty to say I'd put it here.
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