Have you ever stopped to consider why you chose your career path? Was it out of fear? Was it chosen for you? Was it the safe choice? Was it because you always wanted to?
I’m not going to write at length today, nor plumb the depths of academic research on the matter. I simply want to ask you the question and get you to think about it. Why do you do what you do?
What brought you to be doing what you’re doing for a living? Did you consciously make the decision? Did you fall into it by happenstance? Was it a choice of not doing something else?
If you’re considering being a technical writer, there are three essential skills which you need to have. That is if you want to write authentically. Today, I’m going to go over each of them, showing why they’re essential, as well as providing tips and suggestions on how you can improve if you’re light on in any one of them.
As you may, or may not, know, I briefly stopped freelancing a few months ago, when I took up a full-time software development contract. I felt that I wasn’t doing as well at freelancing as I should, and that something needed to change.
If you’re a writer or, actually, any professional, you’ll have had doubts about your abilities, about your level of knowledge, about your level of expertise — perhaps on a regular basis. It needn’t be this way.
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