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Well, I never made any money at it, but I've been doing creative writing a lot longer than technical writing. Going to grad school for the latter induced a four-year hiatus in the former, but oddly enough, now that I a) have a job again after four months of unemployment and b) have a job where I have to work *hard* as I have not in quite some time (it's a startup), I find that I get home and want to work on those old novel files once again. Go figure. I enjoy both, but I think I'm a better writer of technical manuals than fiction right now.
"What it means to be a technical writer" is that I get to do something I'm good at, enjoy doing, and can get paid pretty well for. Which isn't too shabby. :-)
Rebecca Stevenson
Technical Writer
Workscape, Inc.
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From: Sean O'Donoghue-Hayes (EAA)
[mailto:Sean.O'Donoghue-Hayes -at- ericsson -dot- com -dot- au]
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 11:19 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: on technical writers
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Is there anyone who WAS writing and selling creatively, who moved into
technical writing as a new challenge and to earn a sustainable wage from
their writing skills (poets don't earn money - just kudos and bacchanalian
charm....).
And if you are out there - what is your take on the field of technical
writing - and what it means to be a technical writer?
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