Opening Keynote
summary
Claim: writing playful fan fiction makes technical writing faster and clearer, leading to fewer revisions and happier readers; concrete tools shown include outlines, organization, perspective work, and using ascii doc / rst with publisher toolchains; a concrete practice with surprising numbers is Nanowrimo’s 50,000 words in a month (roughly 1,667 words/day) as training; examples include books produced for O’Reilly and Pearson and documentation at NASA that required fewer edits — fanfic practice moves drafting skill into useful documentation.
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chapters (41)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:20Who am I
- 3:50Documentation
- 4:40Writing poorly
- 5:22One of the reasons you were going
- 5:50You might have an idea
- 6:13You might have an app
- 7:04You have to sell yourself
- 7:21Writing helps us out
- 8:02Its boring
- 8:29Its frustrating
- 9:27Fanfiction
- 10:03Ant Wives
- 10:58Fun
- 11:22Tools
- 11:39Writing
- 14:39Organization
- 15:25Author Organization
- 16:25Outline
- 18:19Clarity
- 19:30Code of Conduct
- 21:09Perspective
- 22:49Audience
- 24:16Resources
- 25:11Excuses
- 25:58Tech Writing Podcast
- 26:32Books
- 27:00Fiction First Aid
- 27:43Read More
- 28:46Writing Workshop
- 29:16Writing Groups
- 30:07Online Writing Groups
- 30:34Well Written Documentation
- 31:29Questions
- 32:03Talk preparation
- 32:59Nanowrimo
- 34:49When to write documentation
- 36:37Page layouts
- 37:56Writing tools
- 39:46Authoring
- 42:19Friendships
