Life as a freelance writer
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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), [...]
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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 [...]
This week I decided it was time to start learning some new software, and started to shadow my team’s SharePoint guru. I’ve used SharePoint a little bit in the past, however we’re currently upgrading to the latest version (MOSS 2007), and so I thought it was a good time to get re-introduced.
SharePoint is an interesting [...]
I'm a freelance technical writer who's trying to make the transition from working for somebody else to working for me.