About
I won a copy of "Lord of the Rings" in sixth grade when my short fiction was voted "best story" by my English class peers. That was the moment my writing career began.
Five years later, our small town high school boasted their first "computer" class. We could type letters and numbers and the computers would do something. I was smitten.
Four years of college, two years of French, and one calculus class later, I'd graduated with a degree in International Relations (after struggling through said calculus class). I'd known early on that I would either become a) a writer, b) a software developer or c) a French translator for the UN. It would seem I was headed down the path of c with my college degree in hand.
Through the twists of time and place, my career has careened along all three of these lettered paths, from working for the U.S. office of Tokyo Electric Power to editing for exhibits at the Monterey Bay Aquarium to tech support for McGraw-Hill, Adobe, and Fujitsu. These experiences all lead me to a long career in technical writing.
I created Scribbleware, Inc. in 2018, and I write end-user, IT, and developer docs. I also edit USTDA and USDA international contract reports for multiple grantees and multiple subjects. And on the side, I am a published short fiction writer, working on my first middle-grade fantasy novel.
How does all this come together? I love figuring out how things work, and then using the correct words, varied sentence lengths, and every trick in and out of the book to hold the reader's interest and convey to them something of meaning.
Five years later, our small town high school boasted their first "computer" class. We could type letters and numbers and the computers would do something. I was smitten.
Four years of college, two years of French, and one calculus class later, I'd graduated with a degree in International Relations (after struggling through said calculus class). I'd known early on that I would either become a) a writer, b) a software developer or c) a French translator for the UN. It would seem I was headed down the path of c with my college degree in hand.
Through the twists of time and place, my career has careened along all three of these lettered paths, from working for the U.S. office of Tokyo Electric Power to editing for exhibits at the Monterey Bay Aquarium to tech support for McGraw-Hill, Adobe, and Fujitsu. These experiences all lead me to a long career in technical writing.
I created Scribbleware, Inc. in 2018, and I write end-user, IT, and developer docs. I also edit USTDA and USDA international contract reports for multiple grantees and multiple subjects. And on the side, I am a published short fiction writer, working on my first middle-grade fantasy novel.
How does all this come together? I love figuring out how things work, and then using the correct words, varied sentence lengths, and every trick in and out of the book to hold the reader's interest and convey to them something of meaning.
diana bishop
