Re: Does Dungeons and Dragons make technical writers?

[Alan -dot- Miller -at- prometric -dot- com]

Hence the continued popularity of Sun Tzu's _The_Art_of_War_.

Al Miller
Chief Documentation Curmudgeon
Prometric, Inc.
Baltimore, MD




Andrew Plato <intrepid_es -at- yahoo -dot- com>@lists.raycomm.com on 01/16/2002
12:28:48 PM

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Subject:  Re: Does Dungeons and Dragons make technical writers?

"Darren Barefoot" wrote...

> It seems to me that all of that, among other things, prepared me for a
> career in technical writing from the young age of 11 or 12. Did anyone
> else play D&D and go on to technical writing? Am I making any sense at
> all here? DB.

Who let the nerds out? Woof woof. :-)

I never played D&D. I hate fantasy stuff. I preferred wargames, like D-Day
or Stalingrad from Avalon Hill . The ones with those little cardboard
pieces for units.

D&D might have made you a better writer, but wargames prepare you for
business. Got to think like a general and flank the competition.

Andrew Plato



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