It's never technically over

Being that I am an aspiring writer, at least journalistically, a technical writing class seemed appealing. Knowing that I have to balance creativity and hard writing in my pieces, I was unsure how I could combine the two. Unlike others in this course, my writing career will be very direct, even if I enter the public relations field instead journalism, where it would then become even more technical. My technical writing career has the potential to span from magazine articles to press releases to even social media posts. Regardless, the skills I learned in technical writing will be useful as they have made myself, a right person, write with more attention to detail. This detail manifests itself in more efficient, polished pieces that I hope still to maintain a level of flare and individuality.

When I enrolled in this class I thought: “I know how to formulate the ideas of a writer, but do I know how to write?” I can say that the semester I took a technical writing class combined with my job in publishing helped my writing more in three months than the prior years of my life have combined. The difference? Intention. I look at technical writing like math. You can’t go into a math problem without some level of competence. While writing is an entirely different subject, one can’t go into an essay without some planning and competence either. This is where I failed and this is when my writing was frustrating me, picking up random steam and quickly floundering with the lack of infrastructure in my writing.

I look forward to approaching my work with more of a logical component intertwined. The left and right brain need each other and that is no different when reading pieces of writing. I hope to write technically enough to flow and creatively enough to be conveyed in an interesting manner.