Life as a wannabe freelance writer
The STC announced this week that it was offering scholarships to 250 technical communicators that have “been laid off, let go, downsized, or have been forced to take a pay cut of 10 percent or more.” The money is to be used to attend the annual STC Technical Communications Summit. For more information on the [...]
In: Freelancing
19 Mar 2009This was an excellent question I was asked at a recent job interview, and it’s something that writers often think about, especially freelance ones. I even blogged about this already a while ago, so it’s obviously something that’s on my mind.
I found it a unique interview question (see what I did there?) because it’s not [...]
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: TW
27 May 2008Networking has never been my strong suit. I’m not a big fan of it, and I’m not very good at it. It’s not that I don’t like meeting new people, it’s mostly because I don’t like meeting them simply to exchange contact information. I don’t like the idea of just meeting people to fill up [...]
I'm a freelance technical writer who's trying to make the transition from working for somebody else to working for me.