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Subject:Re: Not Wanted--Technical Writers From:Joe Miller <joemiller -at- CANBERRA -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 16 Dec 1997 14:22:33 -0500
Alexia Prendergast said:
>I find it hard to believe that writers are so much more
>helpless or victimized than other professionals.
How easy it is to get caught up in feeling left out and
sorry for ourselves because:
1. Nobody appreciates us.
2. Everybody is an expert when it comes to writing/publishing
because everybody has used a word processor and all WPs are
alike anyway and those "publishing programs" are just fancy
word processors.
I think that this is because we don't market ourselves, our
talents and our expertise effectively, even to our own in-house
people.
