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Subject:Adding to the nauseum From:Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 4 Jan 1995 14:33:09 CST
|} Previous writers said:
|} >
|} > : > >> The Golden Rules of Writing
[ Is there anyone on the list who hasn't committed these to memory yet? ]
Rosie added:
|} I wasn't going to get in on this thread either. Probably
|} someone else brought up this point while I was on vacation, but
|} where does "on time" come into this equation. One of the major
|} problems that we tech writers have to deal with is getting the
|} documentation done in synch with the product.
|}
And I have a feeling that, for most of us, the rules would get
rewritten very quickly to:
Rule 1: Have it out the door to the printer by no later than 2:30
Friday afternoon.
Rule 2: Do what ever else you want to unless it interferes with
Rule 1.
Rule 3: Smile while you do it, unless it interferes with Rule 1.
Rule 4: Don't even THINK about going home at 2:31 Friday afternoon.
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