Technical Writing Blog

Adverbs are evil. You’ll see this repeated over and over in numerous articles that promise to teach you the fine art of writing. Technical writers create a lot of text, some of it is less generic than other and this ‘less generic text’ brings them closer to novelists, bloggers journalists, as they start wondering whether…

If you have seen the last season of ‘The Game of Thrones’ then you should remember why Tyrion thought it was a good idea to make Bran the King of the Seven Kingdoms. He said that Bran had the best story. And people love nothing more than a good story. While Jon Snow would argue…

There are several ways of how clients can interact with your company. The most obvious way is through your product directly. That’s truly something your company will be known and recognised through. But, there are other things, too, like: Your corporate website Technical support User manuals As a techcomm blog, we are mostly interested in…

People come to technical writing from various fields and backgrounds. Quite often these people can be connected with other forms of writing. Journalists, bloggers, and others who have mostly dealt with more creative forms of content can feel trapped in the help authoring routine. They feel smothered by the lack of creativity, or, to put…

One of the most basic elements of selling a product is helping consumers understand what the product is. For software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, this can prove to be an obstacle, as many have complex, technical applications or market themselves to an unfamiliar audience. This is where technical writers come in. Technical writers help SaaS companies develop…

Do you ever feel like not much is going on for you professionally? If you are the only tech writer in a team, or a freelancer you might as well feel a lack of communication with peers. Are you hoping to revolutionize and improve your technical writing processes? Or, maybe, you are just looking for…

Aloha! One of the perks of being a technical writer is the hypothetical possibility of working remotely. Freelance technical writers are not bound by anything and can create content from any place on Earth. You can work and travel at the same time, how awesome is that? Summer is in its zenith and help authoring…

Video content drives modern marketing. It enables you to show the essential stuff in a matter of seconds. All information is thoroughly picked and composed in such a manner that a prospect doesn’t need to look for things themselves. It is all crispy and clear and packed into one video. Videos can add a lot…

If we look up the word ‘checklist’ in a dictionary, we will find something like ‘a to-do list’. So, the first thing that comes to mind is planning. And, rightfully so, the easiest way to use a checklist in technical writing is for planning purposes. We will talk about that and also show you a…

Let’s talk about reviewing technical documentation. This topic is discussed in the techcomm community a lot since it is the cornerstone of a good help writing workflow. Before analyzing approaches to reviewing, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that having a convenient environment tailored to reviewers’ needs is the first step…