With the recent release of VS2005 Beta 2, a lot of people are playing around and experimenting with things like CLR queries in SQL Server 2005, membership websites, etc.  Some of these people are thinking about writing their experiences down in an article format so it can be published and shared with the world.  It takes time to write an article, especially if you’ve never done it before.  Take a look at this set of author guidelines from MSDN (the Mecca of technical publications as far as Microsoft technologies is concerned).

Other writing aids:

• The Elements of Style by Strunk and White – required reading on using the English language in written form
• A random How To Write a How-To on www.evolt.org
• For those of you with loftier goals, check out Prentice Hall’s guide to writing a technical book.
• Suggestions for writing a book review from www.Apress.com

Share your thoughts with the world, even if you do nothing more than write a few humble blog posts.  You never know when your experiences might prove valuable to someone else.

— Matt Ranlett