Re: on technical writers

["Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>]

On 18 Mar 2002 at 15:18, Sean O'Donoghue-Hayes (EAA) wrote:

> Is there anyone who WAS writing and selling creatively, who moved into
> technical writing as a new challenge and to earn a sustainable wage from
> their writing skills (poets don't earn money - just kudos and bacchanalian
> charm....).

UT State Univ has a visiting professor, Robert Pyle, here this term 
who is a nature writer. Most of his formal training is probably in 
Biology/Ecology, but he's teaching classes in the English 
department so I'm sure he has some formal training there, too. He 
did a reading Friday night of his poems and his prose. I was 
completely entertained, and left with little voices in my head that said 
how wonderful it would be to do that type of writing -- he is doing 
technical writing (field guides on butterflies and general ecology) as 
well as creative writing. By appearances he's quite successful, too. 
(Hey, he authored my copy of the "Audubon Society's Field Guide to 
North AM Butterflies" ).

Dana W. 

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