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Subject:Re: should be a tool list serv... From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> To:techwr-l digest recipients <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 01 Apr 2000 15:14:47 -0800
Kevin Feeman <Kevin -dot- Feeman -at- micromass -dot- com> wrote:
>why are so many posts tool related?
Maybe because tools are easier to talk about than than things
like information organization or typography?
Whatever the reason, the observation applies to most types of
writers. Hang out with fiction writers, and most of the
conversation seems to be about agents, deals, and word
processors.
--
Bruce Byfield, Outlaw Communications
3015 Aries Place, Burnaby, BC V37 7E8, Canada
bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com 604.421.7189
"And standing there just as large as life,
A-smiling with his eyes,
He says, 'The part that they forgot to kill
Went on to organize.'"
-"I Dreamt I Saw Joe Hill Last Night"