Re: A suggestion

On 10 April 2013 01:41, Zbigniew <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2013/4/10, Liam Proven <[email protected]>:
>
>> I've been a professional technical writer for 18 years. Here are two
>> of my ebooks:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006MSECAS
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guide-Windows-Server-2012-ebook/dp/B00B9EKDOE/
>>
>> Here's a selection of my recent stuff:
>> http://search.theregister.co.uk/?author=Liam%20Proven
>>
>> I have been published in PC Pro, PC Magazine, Personal Computer World,
>> IT Support Adviser, PC Plus, Mac User, Computer Shopper, Computer
>> Buyer, PC Advisor, The Mac and other publications. I have had regular
>> columns for years in Network News and Custom PC.
>
> Congratulations.
>
>> I know whereof I speak.
>
> Same with me. Well, I'm not doing it "for a living" - therefore I
> won't have such a long list of references, but still.
>
>> If you can do it that fast, well, good for you. I'm afraid that to me
>> it suggests that you were not doing it very well.
>
> The readers didn't complain. The publishers were asking for more.
> Maybe I'm just that talented? Unbelievable?

Good for you. Seriously. I did not mean to brag; I merely meant to
make the point that I am not an amateur or lacking in experience in
this department.

I meant what I said. If I had to, say, document a piece of completely
new and unfamiliar software, I would expect to spend as long writing
it as exploring it. When I wrote a piece on how to set up a Linux
machine as a small network server in about 1997, it took me about two
months of experimentation and learning and two weeks of writing - for
10,000 words of documentation.

To document the process of building that distro from scratch?
Conservatively, 6 months' work.

I am not a quick writer, but I know of much slower ones, too.

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