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You should get a copy of Peter Kent's new book, "Making
Money in Technical Writing: turn your writing skills into
$100,000 a year", ISBN 0-02-861883-1, 1997, Macmillan.
Kent tells one how to get started, how to work through
agencies, how to obtain contracts, how to go out on your
own, and how to market your services. His book also
discusses income tax, insurance, benefits issues at a
professional level and he provides sources for further
help in these areas. In short, highly recommended.
Good luck,
Shorter Rankin
Sacramento, CA mailto:srank -at- pacbell -dot- net
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Hi all,
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>I'm interested in free lancing in tech.writing and would like to know how
>to get started. If any of you can point me towards some good sources that
>describe the process, I would be most grateful. Tips from the pros are
>welcome as well.
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>I tried searching the techwr's archives on this subject, but I received an
>error message which said that the server is down.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Chris
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>Christina Prell
>Language Literature and Communication
>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
>prellc -at- rpi -dot- edu
>http://www.rpi.edu/~prellc
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