Devastation in Iowa City Tonight

The additional pressure on a writer on deadline is to sit and wait for the
muse to hit with your editor on your case for being three days past
deadline. Sometimes I wish I was simply writing the textbook or service
manual and when it gets done, it gets done. I'd probably do a much better
job.

Jim


The last response, by John S. is very astute. Most writers, myself
included, have those happenstances few and far between. The rest of the
time our writing is not nearly as much fun. More like a job. And not a
well-paying one either. The average annual income of a "professional"
writer in California is less than $7,000 per annum.

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:18:21 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

The additional pressure on a writer on deadline is to sit and wait for the
muse to hit with your editor on your case for being three days past
deadline. Sometimes I wish I was simply writing the textbook or service
manual and when it gets done, it gets done. I'd probably do a much better
job.

Nah. the problem with manuals is they're never done. It's rev this
and rev that until you're ready to puke. I did one on an HP
calculator once that I thought I'd never get done with.

Give me freelance technical articles any day. (Assuming you're being
paid by somebody besides the magazine. Unless you've got a regular
gig with the magazine, which is halfway decent.) There's a deadline,
they appear, and then, for better or worse, they're history.

Don