I never imagined technical writing to be interesting until I started my stint as a technical writer. The initial days slipped away easily with enthusiasm and a craving to learn more and master as much as possible. As time flew, I have realized the fact that I have learnt very little and need to learn a lot in this field of technical writing.
Technical Communications is not an emerging field. It has been in vogue ever since the first time a man told another how to write and how to walk. Indeed, our parents are great technical communicators in the sense that they teach us how to eat with a chop stick and how to do so many little things of life. The most interesting thing is that they communicate their message with the fewest possible words. Of course, for a toddler audience the simpler it is, the better it is. Even today, there are many things that we tend to communicate with mere gestures to our friends and relatives.
It is not so easy to establish such a rapport with our audience. I wish all my readers were my best friends and could use all the words I ever wanted to. However, there would be no challenge in such a case. I pine for creative challenges. I admit the fact that technical writing is not a creative job in reality. There are some boundaries and many more limitations. However, I have a penchant for explaining things to others and that makes me stick to product documentation and technical communications.
