I love everything you write: pragmatic yet with flair. I’ve come to writing for my actual job later in my life - and it’s tech writing (yawn). But as I look to improve at work, your writing tips are getting filed alongside my favorite mentor’s. Thanks for this. Please keep them coming.
I love everything you write: pragmatic yet with flair. I’ve come to writing for my actual job later in my life - and it’s tech writing (yawn). But as I look to improve at work, your writing tips are getting filed alongside my favorite mentor’s. Thanks for this. Please keep them coming.
There's something to be said for tech writing. In my limited experience, I have mostly seen it done poorly.
It's a challenge to get complicated ideas across. You want to keep it lean (Matt's rule #1), but there can be many important details to convey. And if you can somehow keep the boringness down without being cute, that's the ultimate.
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I'm a retired accountant and have written many long financial reports and procedure manuals over my career.
I would occasionally take an hour or two over a weekend to write some short fiction, just to spread my wings (waiting for Matt's guidance on cliches). It was refreshing.
Good to know what you are doing! I was a science grant program manager for many years, and one of my difficult tasks was taking writing by a scientist about a new discovery and converting the information to a form that management could understand.
I love everything you write: pragmatic yet with flair. I’ve come to writing for my actual job later in my life - and it’s tech writing (yawn). But as I look to improve at work, your writing tips are getting filed alongside my favorite mentor’s. Thanks for this. Please keep them coming.
There's something to be said for tech writing. In my limited experience, I have mostly seen it done poorly.
It's a challenge to get complicated ideas across. You want to keep it lean (Matt's rule #1), but there can be many important details to convey. And if you can somehow keep the boringness down without being cute, that's the ultimate.
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I'm a retired accountant and have written many long financial reports and procedure manuals over my career.
I would occasionally take an hour or two over a weekend to write some short fiction, just to spread my wings (waiting for Matt's guidance on cliches). It was refreshing.
Good to know what you are doing! I was a science grant program manager for many years, and one of my difficult tasks was taking writing by a scientist about a new discovery and converting the information to a form that management could understand.