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Subject:Re: TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY From:"Tony G. Rocco" <trocco -at- NAVIS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:21:22 -0800
This is a very interesting question. I'd say that I probably would NOT be a
technical writer without all the GUI "eye candy" referred to.
I got into this profession specifically to write about GUI computer
software, and to work with GUI computers (especially Macs), so without that
stuff, I would not have been drawn to the technical writing profession. In
fact, I seriously considered technical writing as a career in
pre-microcomputer days and nixxed it off my list for being *too boring.*
Writing about some other technical topic just wouldn't light my coals. I
have a very specific niche that I am interested in and if I couldn't work
in that niche area, I'd be doing someting else most likely. Like starving.
- tgr
At 12:35 PM -0800 1/27/98, Roger Peterson wrote:
>Fellow Writers:
>
>You can file this one under misc or you can make it my "off-topic"
>post for the month, but here goes:
>
>If you did not have all the latest computer technology and all that
>wonderful GUI "eye candy" would you still be drawn to technical
>writing. How interesting would it be if you used pencil,
>notepad, and an electric typewriter? Can you separate the
>technology from the task?
