Welcome aboard!

Isn’t it strange that writers rarely write about writing?

I’d like to personally welcome you to the wit and (hopefully!) wisdom of a professional word wrangler. I’m a technical writer for a small software company in Dallas, TX, with over a decade of experience in the IT industry. I’ve made a few attempts to write fiction, but I am sadly lacking the storyteller’s gift. Organization and analysis, on the other hand, come easily. I’m still fairly new to my chosen career in technical writing, with only a few years under my belt, but my passion for detail and accuracy seem to serve me quite well.

Since I don’t have a college degree as a technical writer (as yet), I’m left to my own devices for researching techniques and methods. What I’ve found over the years is a painful lack of technical writers talking about technical writing. Plenty of fiction writers maintain blogs and write novels about writing novels, but where are the documenters, the knowledge base content creators, the managers of the volumes of information that is the lifeblood of almost every IT company? (Answer: they’re busy.)

So, in an effort to fill that gap, perhaps with useful and insightful information for other budding technical writers, I present you with this documentation of my journey.