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Third-person narrator. The fly on the wall is not omniscient.

I love my fly on the wall almost as much as I love my characters. But I also own a fly swatter. Understanding the third-person narrator.

Jun 29, 2022

Third-person narrator. The fly on the wall is not omniscient.

Jun 29, 2022

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Writer’s Blogk

The Soiled Sheets Of A Writer’s Game

Writing is about the game I tell my reader. Win or lose. I started with sports — so let’s say the field is wide open but there’s no goal.

Apr 7, 2019

The Soiled Sheets Of A Writer’s Game

Apr 7, 2019

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practicing clarity — is this a form of sanity?

It’s hard to know where our professional persona ends and where the rest of our bodies and minds (and souls, I guess) reside.

Mar 7, 2019

practicing clarity — is this a form of sanity?

Mar 7, 2019

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Technical Documentation for the Hurried Polyamorous

People who come to read technical documentation are rare indeed. Most come with an urgent need to be guided, to be taken to where they…

Feb 17, 2019

Technical Documentation for the Hurried Polyamorous

Feb 17, 2019

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Technical Writing is Easy

Blogging to Overcome Technical Writer’s Block

This is the last in a series of articles in which I express frustration with the art of technical writing. This series came about while…

Feb 9, 2019

Blogging to Overcome Technical Writer’s Block

Feb 9, 2019

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Technical Writers Blog Also

For some technical writers, writing a blog comes as a relief, a sudden respite from the exigencies of precision and concision. Like when…

Feb 5, 2019

Technical Writers Blog Also

Feb 5, 2019

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Technical Writing is Easy

To Document, To Write

Technical Writers write Technical Documentation. The word in the middle is incorrect: There’s a difference between writing and documenting…

Jan 25, 2019

To Document, To Write

Jan 25, 2019

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Skimmabilty, or the Art of Technical Writing

While rethinking our technical documentation, deciding on how to improve the developer experience, I had a revelation. I suddenly knew…

Jan 20, 2019

Skimmabilty, or the Art of Technical Writing

Jan 20, 2019

Peter Villani

Exploring (API Documentation) Space

Explore space — gather all of the documentation we have — API documents, support tickets, blogs, videos — put it on a single search…

Oct 11, 2017

Exploring (API Documentation) Space

Oct 11, 2017

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Writing only needs two dimensions

Oct 2, 2017

Writing only needs two dimensions

Oct 2, 2017

Peter Villani

Peter Villani

Started writing this blog to reflect on my writing craft. I have another blog where I publish fiction and creative non-fiction. www.codeharmonics.com.

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