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Subject:Multimedia Writers From:"William J. Hartzer" <William -dot- Hartzer -at- EMC2-TAO -dot- FISC -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 10 Aug 1995 15:21:00 EST
In the Multimedia arena, you call a writer a writer. It's the same as it's in
the Television, Radio, or Film industry: a writer is a writer is a writer.
It's the fault of the writers who wrote the article(s) you are referring to
that they didn't include the occupation of writer within the Multimedia salary
survey. Why don't write a letter to the publisher or editor of the magazine
complaining that they didn't include the most necessary element of the
multimedia equation: the writer. Someone has to write the script,
storyboard, and other pre-planning steps that MUST be done before any sort of
production is done (whether the production's done on paper, on film,
videotape, television, or multimedia).
Regards,
Bill Hartzer
Technical Writer (and former television "script" writer)
Fischer International Systems Corporation
Naples, Florida USA
