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What Does a Technical Writer do?

What is a Technical Writer? The vague answer would be: “somebody who writes boring texts”. Vague but not at all inaccurate. Unfortunately. You know the documentation that comes with your new appliance? Or the one explaining the safety rules on a train? Or, yet, the documents explaining how to use a software API? All of them have been written by a technical writer. Useful and important documentation but, easy to admit, not the most exciting content out there. Nothing that takes your breath away or is a page-turner.

Thursday, February 10, 2022 | 7 minutes Read
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6 Things Every Freelance Writer Must Know in 2021

Freelance writing is a weird profession. It has no diploma or master you can attain in order to call yourself a writer. It’s much like an art, as a painter or sculptor, but it has no academia that can teach you to be a freelance writer. A general writer, or a journalist, yes. But a freelance writer must know a distinct set of skills to be called so. It is not just about writing. It is mostly about writing a good, error-free, engaging and well-researched piece. But not only.

Sunday, January 3, 2021 | 9 minutes Read
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Why The Fountain Pen Creator?

I struggled a lot on deciding a name for this website and a sort of nickname for my career as a content writer (creator, as I prefer but more on this later). Most suggested to simply go with your full name or create a complete new persona, not connected to yourself in any way. I rejected the latter as I wanted to give a personal image of myself and be immediately honest with the website visitors. I wanted to be “me”, not some entity.

Friday, September 18, 2020 | 5 minutes Read