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When you want to explore something a little different from the usual tedious rah-rah, blah-blah on-screen brochure

In which the arcane mysteries of the art are revealed so that you might profit thereby



    

 

You can't be hacking those manuals all the time

While conventional technical communication is challenging, gratifying, and a swell source of income, it's a limited form of expression. In time, it fries the brain, diminishes sexual response and generally turns a person into a clod. Fortunately, this can be prevented.

When the opportunity comes up, I'd encourage any technical writer to explore other venues. I know one writer who does books on Ford Model A's, and another who's working on a great romance novel.

Novels
The Nurse and the Earl: A Romance of the Victorian Era

Blazing Saddles: The True Story of Jesus in His Own Words

New
The Mystery of the Mayan Monument
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The Lost Cymbal
Stop Writing Correct and Start Writing Good

On My Encounter with an Incredible Creature of the Air

Application to live in Nevada County (half-page survey, appearing in The Union)
Nevada County Haikus
Ten Modest Proposals for Dealing with the Punks
The Best and Worst of Nevada County
Restaurant Reviews

Dental Masterpieces
Murder, She Flossed
Doc Jones, Frontier Dentist
Doc Jones, Combat Dentist
Doc Jones and the Temple of Plaque
Doc Jones, Undercover Dentist
Doc Jones, the President's Periodontist
Doc Jones, Space Dentist
Gums & Ammo - the magazine cover (79 KB JPG )

Grass Valley Mourns Loss of Barry's Tooth (press release)
Grass Valley Celebrates Opening of Bridge Over Barry's Gorge (press release)

Unexpected Words
Thing a Mother Will Never Say

Literary Triumphs
Bogato – Verse Form of the Ancient Lithians
In Search of the Giant Crabs (a pornographic screenplay )
If Shakespeare Wrote User Manuals
The New Hebrew Workshop

Word Fun
Name that Subdivision
Things Not to Say to Jesus
Microsoft Contraceptive98 (a product announcement)
The Language of Cat Food
Oxymorons (a collection)
Redundancies and Excesses (a collection)
Acronyms and Mnemonics (a collection)
Euphemisms and Anachronism (a collection)

The Language of Food

Special
Ave Maria

 


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