When I told my journalist friends that I would be joining a software firm as a technical writer, a few raised their eyebrows. While a couple of them said this was a good move, others were less optimistic and predicted that I would soon regret that decision. While I have not started to regret that decision in a very bad way, there are things I enjoy in technical writing.
The most important thing I like is the attention to detail. As a technical writer, I have to measure each and every word, each and every sentence, each and every paragraph, and each and every punctuation mark I insert. Every word I write is dear to me and I don't want people to misread it.
I also realised that continuos and constant rewriting improve my deliverable in whatever format the team wants. Rewriting is not a boring task, but it is an interesting task. For others, writing is all about writing something new. They don't understand that if they properly rewrite their own writing, it will look new. It should look new; otherwise, the writer in the technical writer is fake and is dead.
Monday, August 03, 2009
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