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Re: Does Dungeons and Dragons make technical writers?

Subject: Re: Does Dungeons and Dragons make technical writers?
From: "John Fleming" <johntwrl -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 00:43:25 +0000

""Darren Barefoot"" <darren -dot- barefoot -at- capeclear -dot- com> wrote in message news:000f01c19e81$f8e0dae0$e300a8c0 -at- ACCRA -dot- -dot- -dot-

Hi,
The discussion about public speaking training reminded me of another
activity of my youth which may have contributed to my interest in
technical writing: playing Dungeons and Dragons (D&D).

Never played D&D much, but I spent many hours (and wrecked my marks in Grade 12) playing two closely related games--"Chivalry and Sorcery" and "Traveller".

One of the things both games taught me to do was work through a sequence of steps in a logical way and put them down on paper, a skill that has served me very well in both procedure writing and programming.

--
John Fleming
Technical Writer and SAS Programmer
Edmonton, Canada


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