On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:18:21 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

The additional pressure on a writer on deadline is to sit and wait for the
muse to hit with your editor on your case for being three days past
deadline. Sometimes I wish I was simply writing the textbook or service
manual and when it gets done, it gets done. I'd probably do a much better
job.

Nah. the problem with manuals is they're never done. It's rev this
and rev that until you're ready to puke. I did one on an HP
calculator once that I thought I'd never get done with.

Give me freelance technical articles any day. (Assuming you're being
paid by somebody besides the magazine. Unless you've got a regular
gig with the magazine, which is halfway decent.) There's a deadline,
they appear, and then, for better or worse, they're history.

Don