Life as a freelance writer
In: Freelancing| Job Hunting| Life
7 Mar 2010One of the reasons I haven’t blogged here in a while is that I was on vacation for two weeks at the end of February. I was in Vancouver watching the Winter Olympics! It was a spectacular time to be in Vancouver, even more so than normal. People were feeling very patriotic and were wooing [...]
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6 Jan 2010Most of the time when people ask me why I haven’t started doing any “serious” freelance writing, I tell them it’s because I don’t have the energy to do it after coming home from the full time job. But that’s not really true. It’s partially true, but not the real reason. The real reason is [...]
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3 Jan 2010Yes, it’s a new year, and time to get things started off right. I’ve talked and tweeted about getting off my duff and getting back to my writing, so I’ve decided that I should start it off now. I’m taking advantage of the new year and am going to start getting back into the swing [...]
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10 Nov 2009People often ask me where I get my writing ideas, and because I’ve been a writer most of my life (official, technical, or otherwise), I haven’t actually thought about it too much. I’m forever composing short stories, blog posts and articles in my head, or at least coming up with the ideas for all those [...]
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8 Nov 2009I’ve been talking about it for a while now, but I’ve finally gotten off my duff and back to some freelancing work! I’ve updated my freelance site (spacebarpress.com, in case you were wondering), and I cleaned up my job site list. Today I’m about to dive back into things by hunting around the job sites [...]
I'm a freelance technical writer who's trying to make the transition from working for somebody else to working for me.