OVERVIEW
You’re a non-writer who has just been assigned to write the User Documentation for your company’s new product. Your overwhelming emotion is fear, perhaps with some anger.
With any new activity there will be some anxiety. Writing may have added anxiety because of your writing experience while you were a student.
Writing User Documentation is not like the writing that you had to do in school. Those activities were filled with anxiety and “writer’s block.” In this article you will see how to overcome your writing anxieties so you can write a good User Document.
WHAT YOU’RE NOT WRITING
All writing and writing situations are not the same. Let’s differentiate writing a User Document from other types of writing and writing situations.
YOU’RE NOT WRITING A NOVEL
You don’t have to worry about a plot, characters, and techniques to make the writing flow. You do not have to worry about transitions from one section to another; you don’t have to worry about continuity. It is extremely rare for your Reader to read a User Document from start to finish; Readers usually only look...