FAQs
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
One is obliged to constantly read the scientific and technical journals in the computer, technology, electronics, broadcast, film and sound recording industries. You gotta keep running like hell just to stay in the same place. Literally.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
Writing became an adjunct to the technical work I performed as the Lab Director for a major computer magazine in the mid 1990s. That writing let to broadcasting a nationally syndicated talk show about computers and technology which required still more and widely diversified copy, much of it in a broadcast script format. The advent of podcasts and reporting on them necessitated acquiring skills in quick and accurate transcription.
- What types of customers have you worked with?
Technical writing for printed media has included product reviews, technical operation manuals, user manuals, business trend analysis, technical editing, newspaper articles, advice columns and consumer technology analysis. Broadcast writing I've been involved in centers mostly on radio talk show presentation scripts and, similarly, podcast scripts. Subsequent writing has included politics and comparative interdisciplinary scientific analysis and prognostication.