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Subject:Re: Definately (aside) From:"Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher -at- STARBASECORP -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 1 Jun 1995 17:41:41 -0700
Gwen Barnes wrote some really good stuff, including...
> Part of our problem in being taken seriously as technical writers is
> that our work product is not well enough differentiated from "creative
> writing". I sometimes say, with tongue in cheek, that I enjoy writing
> science fiction, and software documentation is the closest thing to it.
I prefer to call it "speculative non-fiction", Gwen. ;-)
Sue Gallagher
sgallagher -at- starbasecorp -dot- com
