In the past, I stopped updating this site because of either technical issues, or because life just kept me too busy.
This time, I can see it coming: I’m going to have to go quiet on this site because that’s what my life requires of me. I hope to be back soon, but I can’t guess when that might be.
I’m a technical writer with a career of 20 years’ experience in full-time documentation of software (and occasionally hardware).
When I was doing my undergraduate degree in English, I took a creative writing course. Each week, we had the assignment of writing in a different style, and it was always most enjoyable. The week that we had to demonstrate our skill in instructional writing, I took advantage of my natural aptitude for detail and wrote a procedure for making a photographic print using a film negative and an enlarger. I got great marks for that assignment. (Historical note: We were still a long way from using digital cameras, so film negatives were still very much a thing.) I wrote with precision and clarity.
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