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You got me. I may be cheating a little with this one. Technical writing is not the most...unconventional, however, it is very different from other writing pursuits.
In fact, you don’t even need to be a writer to be a technical writer. As long as you can string together a basic sentence and understand what you’re working on, you can make it as a technical writing. Writing usually works your creativity muscles and gets your ideas out of your head. That doesn’t happen with technical writing.
It’s like the boring cousin that everyone gets forced to hang out with as a kid.
In technical writing, you write help documents, process documents, technical documents, as well as things like release notes. Basically all the boring documentation that businesses don’t want to write. They’re dreadfully boring to read and dreadfully boring to write.
It is not uncommon to write a 3 page “how to” document for something as simple as logging into a system. Of course, this can get much more complicated and you could be writing technical documentation for a vehicle. Technical writing covers a huge range across industries and it is some of the driest writing out there. But it is incredibly important and, admittedly, pays…
