Writing the First Draft, Part 1
I got a great request from John in a comment. He suggested blogging about how technical writers prepare their first drafts--how they get started creating a document out of a bunch of facts and features. That's such an interesting topic I'd like to get as many people as I can to talk about how they do it.
I start with my own experience and then talk with two of the writers on my team, Norm Estabrook and McLean Schofield. The drafting process for each of us starts with gathering all the available information into some central location and then organizing it, but we each have our own methods for gathering and organizing.
This podcast is 9 MB in size, and is 12 minutes, 3 seconds long.