Re: Deadlines

[Paul DuBois <paul -at- kitebird -dot- com>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 06:42:58AM -0500, Dick Margulis wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> I'm guessing that you are an author of technical trade books. That puts 
> you in a different situation from that of a tech writer producing 
> documentation that accompanies a product or writing proposals on 
> deadline. I suppose some techwrlers are jealous, but I think most of us 
> are just scratching our heads wondering how anyone could live like that.

Ah, the wonderful ambiguity of language.  Do you mean you are wondering:

1) How anyone could make a living doing that?

or

2) How anyone could possibly live with themselves for doing that kind of work?

:-)


Answer to 1) is that I'm not sure I am; it's difficult.
But many of you more conventional wrlers are in much the
same boat, I guess.

Answer to 2) is that ... well, you didn't really mean that,
did you?  I hope.


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