Re: TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY

[Matthew Bin <mattbin -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM>]

>Actually, I don't use a whole lot of fancy tools to write.  I write
about
>hardware and engineering projects, not software.  And I STILL always
write
>my drafts in pencil, in a three-ring binder!  Even the fiction I've
started
>to write recently...
>
>How's that for old-fashioned?

Well this brings up a good point, I think.  I know that many of the TWs
on this list are writers of a less practical sort as well -- poetry,
fiction, et cetera.  And I'm pretty sure some others must have come from
a background similar to my own -- which is to say, with a background in
English literature.

To me, the writing itself is the fascination with this job [groan --
another greenie -- wait'll he's been around another year -- etc].  I've
been a grammar geek for a good long time, so maybe I'm the anomaly, but
I find it hard to believe that more TWs wouldn't write with less
Microsofted equipment.

Then again, I think that WordPerfect 5.1 was the best word processor
ever invented.

My dream, in the end, is to do tech writing that will be printed on
hand-made paper in leatherbound volumes, available on the mahogany
bookshelves of a millionaire's private library near you.

Matt Bin
NeoDyne Consulting, Ltd.
Mississauga, ON




P.S.  A deep burgundy leather.  Embossed in silver.  With tissue paper
protecting each plate.  You know what I mean.

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