RE: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback career?

["Katherine Noftz Nagel (Kat)" <lists -at- masterworkconsulting -dot- com>]

tekwrytr -at- hotmail -dot- com (Technical Writer) wrote on 2008/08/21:
>Specifically, a 
>major motivation for writing (rather than other types of communication) 
>is the desire to have the (usually uncontested) "last word." 


Uncontested?

That may be true for self-published writers, but not for any of us who
have had to submit our work to clients, or editors, or
technical/management reviewers.  

K@
"The transformation of calories into words, of words into money,
 and of money into calories again are the three basic cycles in a
 freelance writer's metabolism."   _Poison Pen_ by Mary Kittredge

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