Life as a wannabe freelance writer
In: TW| Working| Writing| technical writing
28 Mar 2010Last night I was visiting a friend who’s husband also works for my employer. After dinner I noticed that he was getting ready to go out and he said it’s because he had to supervise the release of a new version of software that the company was doing. I asked him about it and was [...]
This week I spent a good part of my time at the office trying to tame SharePoint. I’m the vice-SharePoint guru in my department, and I’ve been a little remiss in my sandbox play. In fact, I’d completely forgotten I even had access to our UAT SharePoint environment! We currently use a SharePoint site to [...]
In: Freelancing| Working| Writing
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 [...]
In: Freelancing| Working| Writing
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 [...]
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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), [...]
I'm a freelance technical writer who's trying to make the transition from working for somebody else to working for me.