I've always been fascinated with the strength and flexibility of the English language. Over the course of my career I have developed training programs and quality guidelines to promote world-class support, edited web-based and hard copy technical documentation, crafted scripts for video production and trade show demonstrations, built top-down policies in conjunction with bottom-up procedural guides, guided teams of instructional designers in creating comprehensive learning solutions, and written documents ranging in scope from white papers to cookbooks.
While the majority of my work has
been done in either proprietary editing software
or Microsoft Word, I'm in the process of working
through learning Adobe's InDesign and Framemaker.
I expect to be able to take the ACE examinations
within a month or so for InDesign, and a couple
of months after that for Framemaker.
From a personal perspective, I simply can't imagine not writing. Whether I'm blogging, jotting down a recipe, working on a novel, or transcribing an interview, feeling the keyboard come alive under my fingers is a terrifyingly heady sensation. Joseph Pulitzer, when speaking of the reading public, insisted that writers "Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light." Truer words were never said.
