Who am I?

I’ve been a professional technical writer for 20+ years concentrating on the developer tools and technologies used to create the software regular people run and enjoy on their computers and for the last few years their mobile devices.

When I was first getting started I managed to write and self-publish two books on programming for an obscure Macintosh BASIC developer tool called FutureBASIC, both are now out-of-print but still listed on Amazon. Both did moderately well at the time as I learned a lot about working on large writing projects and managed to update my entire computer system to the latest and greatest from the proceeds.

Where once a 5 page report in high school was a major task, today I am barely warmed up at that length. Since those days I’ve probably written another 15-20 novel length manuals on developer tools. Over three years I managed to take an initial product manual of 64 pages (not written by me) and expand it into five separate manuals with a total page count approaching 600. I had a lot of help from the programmers who continued to add feature after feature forcing me to explain them all, in copious detail.

Of course, writing fantasy based on the ideas stirring around in my head as opposed to fact based technical material is a real challenge. The voice, the audience, the expectations are so different than what I do in my day to day work. But its a lot of fun to explore all the stories I’ve been dreaming about for years. Only time will tell if you get as much enjoyment out of my stories as I do creating them.

About lfrank

Now suffering in the hinterlands of Michigan while trying to transform myself into a fiction author. Don't wait up.
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1 Response to Who am I?

  1. Lora says:

    Yay, Frank!

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