 Number 203 - April 2000 |
| On Writing | |
| by Joe Sherry NOCCC - January 2000 | |
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It has long been my
desire to write articles and short stories. So what has been holding me
(and you?) back. Is it availability of time?
Probably not. If something has a high enough personal priority, time is somehow made available for it. However, this is a very good excuse, though not really a valid one. If one is a good writer. the material should just flow naturally into the (typewriter? How times have changed!) keyboard, and thus shouldn't require any serious amount of time to create. My reason for believing this is that a number of years ago, during my technical management prime, there were a few articles published with my byline, even one into an international technical journal. Well, if my time was as valuable then as it is now, how did those articles get to be written? It was because there was relative certainty that they would be published, and be published in the not too distant future, so that my creative instincts would be satisfied from the effort. |
This brings me to the
point of this article. If you are capable of producing an interesting
article, you are fairly certain it will be published in the Whatdoya' think of them apples!! Think about a subject that is rather dear to your heart regarding computers, one on which you consider yourself having reasonable knowledge. (That can be knowledge on just how UN-knowledgeable you are about something which caused you to have a specific problem, which you then resolved.) It's fun to pump out a short article with your byline on it, and would probably take less than an hour of your time to produce it, review it, and then e-mail it to |
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