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by Grimm665 1456 days ago
Lot's of examples mention techniques, I'll mention tools. Find an editor you like to write in, extend it with plugins that help your flow if it's the kind of app that allows it, and learn all the in's and out's to make writing as easy as possible.

I don't have a strong background in technical writing, but often get compliments on my documentation and the secret is org-mode; it makes writing structured documents easy, and there are many tool for converting org-mode docs to any format needed, so it adapts to any audience.