Life as a freelance writer
In: Freelancing| Life| TW
12 Mar 2009In my quest to find contract technical writing positions, I came across one for a full-time position at a company that I’ve dealt with before. It was a bad experience from several years ago, and it left me with such a bad taste in my mouth that I haven’t bothered to apply to them again…even [...]
In: Freelancing
11 Mar 2009Many people have written on this topic for freelance writers, and I thought I’d toss my two cents in the ring. Specifically I wanted to talk about those bidding sites like GetaFreelancer.com. I’ve tried using these before and haven’t really had much success, but I thought I’d give it a shot this week. Since I’m [...]
In: Site
3 Mar 2009You might have noticed a few changes around here at the blog @ spacebarpress. With my full-time foray into the freelancing world, I thought it time I change around a few things. First up, this blog’s title.
Changing Titles
I’ve never been entirely convinced of the title of this blog, so I played around with it and [...]
In: TW
13 Feb 2009I’ve been playing around with Twitter for the last few weeks, seeing if I can leverage it in my quest for freelance technical writing work. It’s been an interesting experiment, as there are many tools out there that you can use besides just using Twitter by itself. The tool I like best so far is [...]
In: Freelancing| Life| TW
17 Apr 2008As I’ve been busy making plans and plotting my course to full-freelance-dom, I’ve been doing a lot of blog reading. In most things I’m a “look before I leap” kind of gal, however when it comes to my professional life, I do tend to study the situation from all angles before making a move.
Looking [...]
I'm a freelance technical writer who's trying to make the transition from working for somebody else to working for me.