It's all about the blog, baby, so why am I stumped to write a title? I took a lame (and contrived) rap tune released in the 90s and threw it into a Cuisinart to get this pathetic pate of a paragraph.
I've been thinking about words and how language fits into my career. I'm a technical communicator but was never a language czar wearing a flak jacket with WEA (Word Enforcement Agency) on the back. I began my career as an editor and flourished because I knew how to let people find their voice and if they had been writing for years, I knew how to let that voice boom and pop as a funky fresh rhythm in the annals of the software company I worked at.
Perhaps that's why editing and editing with a knack for an easygoing, conversational flow has been my gig of choice (over starched documentation that, while grammatically correct, lacks the delicate balance---talk with the user; don't speak to the user). I started writing when I was quite young but graduated to editing the high school newspaper. In college, I loved science and technology and writing, so I picked Technical Communication. Plus, I admit, I am a member of the geek club with my membership card tucked quietly behind my old Pearl Jam tickets.
I won't lie to you...I notice typos in emails and on popular websites, such as CNN, but I'm not getting out the red pen anytime soon. The beauty of writing and editing is that you can learn how to improve your writing from more experienced writers and teach other, less experienced writers how to write better.
I guess this post is filler; cheese for the ravioli; heady plot for the washed-up daytime soap opera; and banal banter between two aging sportscasters looking to net a pullquote in the Post for the Spurs-Cavaliers game.
Keep reading...I'll try to keep it interesting and entertaining. And, just maybe, my smooth blogging will melt away any preconceived notions that a technical commmunicator can't be creative.
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