Re: "Creative Technical Writing"

[Keith Hood <bus -dot- write -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Yes, vaporware writing. Anyone who has ever written a help system working
from the specs instead of from the UI has written science fiction just as
surely as Isaac Asimov ever did.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- nuot -dot- com> wrote:

> Ya gotta be pretty creative to document something that doesn't exist:
>
> "Okay, here's a sketch of what the GUI will look like. Now, imagine there
> are two more buttons over here on this side. Well, maybe three, we're not
> sure yet. But we need the manual next week."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Cardimon
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:54 AM
> To: TECHWR-L Writing
> Subject: "Creative Technical Writing"
>
> Saw an ad today for a Creative Technical Writer. There's a first time for
> everything, I guess.
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