Thread: any writers?

Poetry, short stories, essays, tech documents.....I also do editing of other folks works, grammar, etc.

Originally Posted by nestablifted

Any English majors on SRP? I'll be graduating with a degree in English Literature this summer...Hopefully!

I'm an English major and also a writer of sorts ... I do technical translations from Italian into English, but that's my post-mid life crisis career. For thirty years after graduating I sold all types of computers and software. English majors get a lot of static from parents because its not a "practical" degree like accounting, law or medicine in fact, a student once told me he was majoring in philosophy and, being somewhat of a smart-aleck, I said, "Oh great, I just heard that IBM is hiring 200 hundred philosphers because it realized it needed a new paradigm." Well, the joke was on me because IBM hires droves of philosphers ... it turns out they make great programmers.

I agree with Mastermute and Quick Orange ... it's hard to write a good technical manual and the reason is that techies are good at knowing what they know but rarely make the effort to put themselves in the user's shoes. If Quick Orange was complemented on his manuals it's because he worked hard on them.

I write horror and fantasy. I've written one book which I'll send out as soon as I've finished proofing, and I've wrote another. Unpublished as yet, but I'm working on it.

I used to write poetry a lot, but then I stopped. I am getting back into a bit.

Yeah, writer and English major -- as Zorba would say, the whole catastrophe.

Most of my published work is in magazines having to do with outdoor sports and skiing. I have a trail guide to the Appalachian Trail out, on its second edition.

If you can't write what you know, at least write what you like, right?

j

Hey writers... I'm constantly looking for people to write for SRP.. So if anyone is ever interested, they should shoot me a PM...

dw