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Subject:Re: The Golden Ratio 75/25 From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:10:33 -0400
From: "Andrew Plato" <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com>
>
>
> When I think of 75/25, I think that 75% of a project's time is devoted to
this
> iterative process of learning, writing, revising, and diagramming. The
> 25% is the pure logistics of the project - editing, fixing styles,
reviewing,
> using templates, fussing with XML stuff, etc.
>
> My original point was that many writers use 50% or more of their time on
pure
> logistics and leave very little time to learn, write, digest, etc.
>
Thanks for the clarification, Andrew. That makes sense to me.
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