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Tech Writer's Blues

When you finally finish the first draft of a technical manual, you can't help experiencing a sublime feeling of accomplishment.

And there's nothing that deflates this feeling faster than wasting an hour babysitting the copy machine, waiting for the inevitable paper jam or system crash or whatever. Ugh. It's all so mundane and tedious. Sometimes I try to pass the time by imagining that the process is... well, more epic or something...

Three Drafts for the QA team, on whom one can rely,
Seven for the Engineers, who do naught but bitch and moan,
Nine for the Managers with deadlines nigh,
One for the VP on his dark throne
In the land of Marketing, where the shadows lie.
One Manual to rule them all, One Manual to find them,
One Manual to explain it all, and at the Kinko's bind them.

Nope, that didn't really help.

Posted by Evan Goer on May. 30, 2003 at 12:09 PM | Comments (4)

Comments

  1. Likening your Manual to something that controls men's souls, turns them evil and makes you feel invisible? Buck up, I'm sure the manual was better than that!

    :)

    Posted by Adiv on May. 30, 2003 at 1:03 PM

  2. Good lord you need to take a break man :) HARHARHAR!

    Posted by Slamfu on Jun. 02, 2003 at 8:22 AM

  3. Of course the manual is "better than that!" It is... precious to me.

    Posted by Evan on Jun. 02, 2003 at 11:34 PM

  4. Go throw your manual in a volcano!

    Posted by Adiv on Jun. 03, 2003 at 12:49 PM

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