RE: : Poll: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback career?

["Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>]

You might want to look around for another writers' group. I found mine
through our local library. If you don't like one, find another. Or
create another one: The Writers' Group for Unsympathetic Characters. Who
says characters have to be sympathetic? Perhaps you create good
anti-heroes.

Craig 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Downing, David [mailto:DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com]
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 10:52 AM
> To: Cardimon, Craig
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: : Poll: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback
career?
> 
> Actually, I was a member of a writers' discussion group long ago -- a
> group that I actually helped form. I was also a member of an online
> critiquing group for awhile. Alas, that's where I got a lot of the
> negative feedback about unsympathetic characters, although some of it
> also came from editors of small-press magazines.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cardimon, Craig [mailto:ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com]
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 10:43 AM
> To: Downing, David; Lauren
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: : Poll: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback career?
> 
> >
> > On the other hand, what I REALLY wanted to do was write fiction.
Maybe
> I
> > would have gotten somewhere in that field if I had kept at it -- and
I
> > still would like to get back to it -- but the feedback I was getting
> > suggested I didn't quite have "the right stuff." I was told I could
> > write well, but didn't have the ability to create sympathetic
> > characters. (Actually, I've been kicking around an idea for a story
> > about a technical writer.)
> >
> 
> I would suggest joining a local writers' group. That's what I did.
That
> can help a lot. My submissions -- short stories and read-aloud musings
> -- have gotten good reviews from the group members. I have already
been
> asked if I have ever tried publishing anything. The answer is no. But
> the positive feedback has been very encouraging.
> 
> -- Craig
>
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