The Importance of Technical Writing in the Digital Age
Why you should write technical article?
You can do technical writing as a side hustle or a profession. This choice is like what best fits you. A developer at the beginning of his career can do it as a profession.
But someone who is already writing code and has experience can write articles as a side hustle. Both scenarios will be beneficial. Now let’s look into some benefits of it.
Building Audience: By starting a blog on a platform and on your website, you will start reaching an audience(other developers most likely) through the article on it. On the platform, they can interact with the post by giving their reactions and commenting on their thoughts on the article. They can follow the platform to get more articles from you. By doing this, you will create an audience for your blog that will read, react and comment on your blog posts.
Learn: During the research of the articles. You will learn a lot about the topic that will enhance your knowledge of the domain. I learned many things by just writing articles. Also, the community will interact with your post to share their experience and opinion. You will also learn a lot from other perspectives about the post.
Helping Developers: The best way of preserving a piece of knowledge is by sharing it with others. When you write an article about a topic, it will only sharpen your knowledge about it. Also, with your knowledge and experience, you can help other developers that are at the stage where you were once. So, It’s a win-win situation for both the reader and the creator.
Generate Income: There are various blogs that paid writers for their articles. Tech startups need technical writers to share the word of mouth of their products. We will discuss such blogs that pay well for writing an article. You can do a part-time/full-time job as a Technical writer. With this point, I just want to highlight that you can generate good income as a side hustler or a job seeker.
Potential Job: Technical writer job is quite the best. But for someone who wants to seek more opportunities from here. They can add more skills to this such as communication, management, and public speaking. This will open doors for opportunities such as Developer Relations, Developer Advocate, Community Manager, and Content Manager. There will be more such jobs that you adapt from the technical writing by adding more skills to it.
The domain is quite good. The opportunity is not less in it. As blogs and startups are always looking for a good writer to get them on board their platform. I will not recommend everyone to pursue it because some feel good to share and some do not but I will definitely recommend everyone to at least give it a try.
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