Life as a freelance writer
In: Freelancing| Writing
26 Mar 2009Today Deb blogged about the excuses we all come up with as freelance writers. Things like “I don’t have enough experience”, and “there are no jobs out there”. The list got me thinking of my own personal reasons for not starting freelance work, so I’d like to add a few more from my personal files.
My [...]
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 [...]
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13 Feb 2009For the first time in my technical writing career, I’m finding that I have lost a bit of my inspiration for writing. That’s mostly due to the trying situation I’m going through at my current full-time employer. (I won’t bore you with all the details, but suffice to say the lack of process at my [...]
I'm a freelance technical writer who's trying to make the transition from working for somebody else to working for me.