Life as a wannabe freelance writer
In: Freelancing
30 Aug 2009This morning I spent some time planning my next freelancing move. (Yes, that’s planning to plan, [insert laughter here]). I decided this week that I’ve got to start scheduling in my writing time, because I’m obviously not finding the time to do it on an ad-hoc basis. This means that I’ll be spending more than [...]
In: Freelancing| Working| Writing
26 Aug 2009Again, my RSS reader was chock-a-block of great posts, and since I’m behind in my reading, you’ll have to forgive the slew of posts my backlog might produce.
There’s a a great post on Freelance Switch titled “The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Guide to Freelancing”, that deals with two of my favourite things (Buffy & writing), [...]
In: Freelancing| Working| Writing
24 Aug 2009This week my RSS reader brought me a post from Lisa over at Getting it Write for You that I thought was appropriate for me. She blogged about setting goals the other day, and I thought it was quite timely for me as I attempt to get back into freelancing part-time. Given that I’m going [...]
In: Freelancing| Life
24 Jul 2009Good day everyone! My humblest apologies for my rather sporadic posting as of the last few months. I’ve been meaning to get back to y ‘all and say “hey!”, but just haven’t gotten around to it. I started the new job in April, and have been getting back into the swing of working full time [...]
In: Freelancing| Writing
26 Mar 2009Today Deb blogged about the excuses we all come up with as freelance writers. Things like “I don’t have enough experience”, and “there are no jobs out there”. The list got me thinking of my own personal reasons for not starting freelance work, so I’d like to add a few more from my personal files.
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I'm a freelance technical writer who's trying to make the transition from working for somebody else to working for me.