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- I have been a technical author ever since I left university in the late '90s. In that time I have worked in small teams and as a lone writer, and picked up an impressive array of eclectic skills; from creating demos of products that don't exist using Paint Shop Pro and Captivate, to raytracing company Christmas cards, to writing a basic device driver. I love my job and hope to be doing it for many years yet!
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Translation, or, Why can't everyone just speak English?
This week I'm having the same problem with translation that I always have. That is, the fundamental dichotomy between writing the documentation right down to the wire, and the need to send it off for translation a month before...
In an ideal world, of course, I would just write the documentation according to the specs, and perhaps do some tweaking of the English version at the last minute to account for minor changes in development.
Alas, dear friends, we exist in a world that,…
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Posted on March 19th, 2008 at 8:30am —
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Now is the winter of our dis-content...
(I apologise. There have been a lot of bad puns on the techcomms mailing list of late)
Today I am in the situation that every technical writer (or content developer of any stripe) hates. The deadlines are looming on the horizon, but I can only get access to the information in dribs and drabs. Ten minutes' access to a buggy version of a major new feature here, a meeting to pin down the UI before the platform changes there...
In short, it seemed like a good time to join Content Wr…
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Posted on March 13th, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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I don't know you, though I feel I should - you're a tech writer in (more or less) the South-East of the UK. Maybe I can tempt you to come along to some STC events some day?
David