Life as a wannabe freelance writer
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today I spent some time rating articles on Helium.com. This is something I must do on a regular basis if I want to earn on my articles there. It’s something I enjoy doing, since I end up reading articles on topics I wouldn’t write about. But there are things that some writers do that just [...]
I’ve officially been at my new full time writing job for a week, and I must say, I’ve written more in my first week than I did in the 6 months at the evil Acme Software Company. Isn’t that wild?
Needless to say, I am very pleased with my decision to take this job. Things are [...]
Seeing reruns of CSI: Miami on three different channels this week reminded me of something that freelance writers often forget: you can create a sustainable income for yourself by repurposing your own work. Just like the producers of CSI: Miami earn money with each rerun of the show on all the different channels I saw [...]
I'm a freelance technical writer who's trying to make the transition from working for somebody else to working for me.