A Book of Your Own

Editor’s Note: The following piece, by the late, great Herman Holtz, was to appear as part of Herman’s “Hindsights & Insights” column. It is part of our collection of “classics”–articles that stand the test of time no matter how many technologies come and go. Published with permission. It seems, from what I read every day on the TECHWR-L list, that it isn’t at all easy for most people to break into a beginning tech writing job. Of course, that kind of Catch 22–you need a job...