Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction is an ideal book for writers who want a no-nonsense primer on how to start selling short stories. (It’s not about writing style or how to ...

Here’s the scenario: You’re finishing up your latest HTML Help project…no more late nights or weekends…back to a “normal” 50-hour work week. That’s when the development team lead strolls into your ...

I’m about to start doing my taxes on my own for the first time. How hard can it be? All I do is put a bunch of info on a form and send it to the IRS. Oh no! Oh, what a mess. I wonder who’s watching me ...

Recently I asked our current students to share a brief story about how Northern Arizona University coursework has been helpful in their current workplace writing endeavors. Our program serves students ...

In the modern “fake news” era, “facts” are increasingly flexible rather than tangible, provable, stable things. People increasingly accept opinions and gut feelings as more valid than expert knowledge ...

Most technical communicators have worked for employers that mistook activity for productivity and have tried to teach our bosses the difference between churning out words and crafting useful ...

Editor’s Note: The following piece, by Jean Hollis Weber, is part of our collection of “classics”–articles that stand the test of time no matter how many technologies come and go. Don’t forget to ...

Nobody’s ever accused me of being a brilliant public speaker, but people generally seem to like and remember my presentations and generally rate me as a confident, welcoming, and effective speaker.

Let me ask you a question about demographics. Can you name a minority — a statistically underrepresented group of people — by only knowing its size? To answer, let’s try a thought experiment with ...

This week, Google launches the second Season of Docs (GSoD) program, where technical writers of all levels of experience team up with developers of free and open-source software (FOSS) to improve ...

Our organization works to create a world that understands and embraces the power of great content effectively communicated. We want to liberate ideas from experts and put them in the hands of our ...

The idea of hunting for a new job can be a daunting prospect when times are normal. And this is not normal. Many people remain stumped as to how to proceed with job hunting in the coronavirus era.