Passion
The subject of passion enters a lot of discussions at Microsoft. You hear this in the form of encouragement about your career. Do something you're passionate about and you'll never work a day in your life. To writers: Find what you're passionate about and write about it.
I find all this somewhat odd.
Imagine you were a lexicographer - a dictionary writer. Do you think it would be okay to only write about the words you were passionate about? Or maybe you'd just do a good job on the words you are passionate about? It seems like it is a professionals job to write fine dictionary definitions about all words, even set and plus. Should we neglect prepositions? or wait 'til we find a passionate preposition lexicographer? Something tells me that might not be cost effective. Perhaps we'd just expect a competent professional to do a good job with all words.
To be honest, I feel for the words and documents about subjects that don't inspire passion in a writer. I feel compassion for the poor subjects that are and will always be ordinary. Some will be useful and some will be mostly ignored.
In fact, I might suggest to the aspiring writer that she or he find the most boring, mundane thing and try writing about that. If I were a business ower, I think I would pay good money for that.
Minor grammar revisions after initial post - yikes.
