quite a lot of my career has been writing - reference material and training courses, and a few short stories. apart from the latter, all of which were crap, my

quite a lot of my career has been writing - reference material and training courses, and a few short stories. apart from the latter, all of which were crap, my advice would be: - know what you are writing about. it is very hard to write on a subject you have little knowledgr of - pick an example that you have seen and found helpful (i chose MS c++ help - the old stuff not the new crap) and model your text on that - if possible, get it reviewed, if it is a course then teach it from what you have written - the punters will not be kind to a badly-written course - use professional grade tools, if you are doing this for real money - i used framemaker for most of my technical writing