Comments for The Creative Tech Writer

Comment on I’d laugh myself to death if I didn’t have to be somewhere by jenny

jenny — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:09:29 +0000

Corrected the link — thanks!!

Comment on I’d laugh myself to death if I didn’t have to be somewhere by Emily

Emily — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:02:42 +0000

The link here appears to be very broken. I can’t even find this URL in Google cache.

Just letting you know!

Comment on Today’s version of tech writer hell… by Gordon

Gordon — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:41:48 +0000

Slowly ramping up towards that kind of thing myself. Currently doing basic style updates to make sure that we at least START with some consistency..

Comment on Oh for the love of… by Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:58:57 +0000

Well said. Both of you!

I’m on a tech writing mailing list and it still boggles me that some ‘discussions’ that seem simple enough, can drag on and on and on..

I recently wrote a post that stated “Writing is not important” with the premise that technical knowledge is (in my experience) seen as more beneficial to some employers. I didn’t state so in the post but I was hinting that the ‘split’ between technical and writing was something like 50.1% and 49.9% but nooooo some people leapt all over it.

Mind you I did deliberately choose the post title to try and generate some discussion (mine is a new blog and I’m still building traffic).

What Fred says is true, people will read their own interests and prejudices into anything.

Comment on Oh for the love of… by Fred Sampson

Fred Sampson — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:26:16 +0000

Jenny–wow, I managed to wake you from your non-blogging state, eh? Cool. . .

I guess what I’ve learned from this episode, that I should have previously learned from reading email lists, is this: people will read their own interests or prejudices into just about anything, and respond to however they read it. So it must be more interesting to technical writers to talk about whether TW is boring than it is to talk about whether talking about TW is boring. So maybe they really *do* think TW is boring, and were trying to talk themselves out it. Or something. Or not.

Anyway, I’m over it. And I’m glad to know that you’re still alive and kicking ass.

Cheers,
Fred

Comment on Reaping what someone else sows… by Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:41:14 +0000

I hate telling a stranger that I’m a technical writer; the reaction is almost always as you describe. Instead, I’ll just say that I work in software, which by itself is usually enough to discourage further questions, unless they’re in the industry too.