#106 - Technology(4) - Tech Writers(I)

Good Thursday, everyone!

Have you all had a great week so far? Hope you all have!

As a person who is working in the technological world, I have to read a lot of books about the field. Since I am in the writing world too, the mix of technology and literature has been stimulating my mind lately and raised a lot of questions.

For a book lover and a fan of technology, now a amateur writer, I've found that most of books about technology I've read are dry, flat and even boring. I know that as a book of technology, the most important job is to tell readers precisely and correctly about the technology, and other factors, such as interesting, inspiring and playful, are secondary. Most readers, including myself, would ask:

Why not both, precise and interesting?

The obvious answer is that most of authors of tech books are experts of some technology, not professional writers, they are very knowledgeable of their profession, but lack of writing skills.

It's achievable to become a great technician and at the time a phenomenal writer, some people already are, and I want to be one of them, so the question appears naturally:

How to become a good tech writer?

The title "a good tech writer" means two things:

1. A good technician.

2. A good writer of technology.

As a technician, his major job is to make products and solve problems, he usually goes the following steps:

. Make a product.

Step 1: Be told what the customer wants.

Step 2: Seek the solution to fulfil the customer's need.

Step 3: Pick the best solution.

Step 4: Implement the chosen solution.

. Solve a problem.

Step 1: Look at the symptom.

Step 2: Collect information about the symptom.

Step 3: Find out the cause of the symptom.

Step 4: Carry out the solution to get rid of the cause.

Step 5: Execute the solution.

A writer is an artist, she is not just to say about something, she say it in artistic ways, the following characteristics of writers elaborate it:

1. Writers have better eyes for detail than average people.

2. Writers observe the world from a very different perspective.

3. Writers express themselves artistically.

In the next part of this topic, I will talk more about tech writers and hope you all join me again.

Thanks for your support and let's write more about technology!

Be poetic and be an investigator!

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August 29th, 2019 at 06:25am