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Subject:Re: Process kills the dot.com From:Andrew Plato <intrepid_es -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:07:51 -0700 (PDT)
"Smith, Martin" <martin -dot- smith -at- encorp -dot- com> wrote in message news:74976 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> After reading Dan Emory and Andrew Plato battle it out over the value or
> futility of structure in writing, along with a moving under-plot about
> architecture, I've come wonder what an Andrew Plato murder mystery novel
> might read like. I'm envisioning a novel where the perpetrator is arrested
> in chapter 2 and someone gets killed in chapter 12 but I can't quite figure
> out what would happen in between.
Could you point me to the exact phrase where I said that writing should be
unstructured chaos? I never said that Martin, that is not my argument. You're
twisting my argument around to suit your needs.
My argument is that a PROCESS to produce documentation should never supersede
the content. Of course documents should be organized. But that organization
should flow from the content not some pre-determined unmovable hierarchy.
Andrew Plato
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