Few days ago, a friend of mine received a proposition to write an article for a developer magazine (french magazine Programmez). He was happy to talk about what he loves : TypeScript and Javascript in general.
I am a regular writer for this magazine so I gave him some tips & tricks. First : feel the passion into your word document you will send. The first article is always with big emotions but emotions should be replaced with passion for technologies. So there are differents ways to achieve the goal of producing a paper for a magazine. People like me talk to the reader by telling a story. Others are more “litteraire”, and with a good writing style. In my opinion, writing a technical article is giving keys and small samples and the goal is to make it attractive to the reader so that he can search in its favorite search engine topics about the stuff your write.
An article has to follow conventions : 4500 char per page. 9000 for two pages, etc. You can ship images with your articles and source code. Take care that the code should not be too much indented. There are two columns in the magazine so if one lne of source code fills 2 lines, it’s not good.
My friend gave me its article for review. I have feeled he gave everything he has to share. But it is a serie so he has to write one ou two more articles to fill the technical stuff and the deep dive of TS.
But the result is good. Now he can fly by himself. Everybody can write a technical article, it just takes time. If you known what your are talking about, it’s easy to put in Word.
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