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Of quills -at- airmail -dot- net
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 10:09 AM
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Subject: RE: poets as tech writers and programmers
Considering how some software works, I thought we wrote technical
fiction.
Scott
> Once upon a time, I used to write poetry. Fortunately I'd learned
> better by the time I started my technical authoring career. These
> days my spare time is far better spent figuring out how to work the
> Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's motto into our marketing docs.
>
> I did once work with someone who is now a published children's author.
> She was... well... a technical author, basically. Neither better nor
> worse than any other.
>
> Pity, really. I feel our documentation could have done with more
> flights of fancy*.
>
> S.
>
> *In addition, obviously, to the more usual 'If you click on the x
> button y will happen' flights of fancy
>
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