Breaking the Rules
Stephen GruppettaA story about telling stories in technical writing. This substack is about my journey exploring Narrative Technical Writing. It's about breaking the traditional rules and borrowing techniques from storytelling to make compelling technical articles
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 58 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 4 months ago |
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Swapping Things Around
It’s happened to you, too. You’re reading a text and you have to read a sentence or a paragraph a second time. Perhaps a third time, too.
There may be many reasons for this. One of these reasons is the order in which the author presented t...
An Audience of One (Ep. 21)
I now have three active Substack publications. You can say I'm hooked on writing on Substack. I'm a serial Substacker.
And they're three different publications.
The Professional One • The Python Coding Stack • The first Substack I started...
From Spark to Publication (Ep. 20)
Normally, I write about my ideas around making technical writing more narrative. However, in this post, I will write from a more practical perspective.
Today, I published my latest article on The Python Coding Stack. It's not an extensive...
Breaking the Rules is live — bringing storytelling to technical writing
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Reducing the Load (Ep. 19)
Was it on purpose? Did they not see the irony?
This article is about cognitive load—the amount of mental effort needed when learning something. Just like pushing a wheelbarrow full of bricks up a hill—which I'm sure you all do everyday—the...
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