Life as a freelance writer
With the impending arrival of spring, okay, it’s not really impending, but with our transition into the month of March which is closer to the arrival of spring, I decided it was time to do some career improvement. I’ve been thinking of officially taking some editing courses over the last several months, as that’s something [...]
In: Freelancing| Life| Writing
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 [...]
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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.