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Dana - Jun 06, 2011 6:24:27 pm PDT #78 of 1416
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

As a tech writer, I had trouble for my first two jobs because the stuff I'd worked on was confidential. Couldn't take any samples with me.

Can you use something from a previous job, but redact identifying bits?


§ ita § - Jun 06, 2011 6:27:38 pm PDT #79 of 1416
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

They're so specific, though. The work product is so in every line. Its not easy to describe a piece of software and miss the point and get across good writing,


Dana - Jun 06, 2011 6:33:23 pm PDT #80 of 1416
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Can you use us, or is that too far in the mists of time?


§ ita § - Jun 07, 2011 6:15:38 am PDT #81 of 1416
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I would have to sit down and actually write this site up, but that could be a good exercise.


Strix - Jun 10, 2011 8:55:36 am PDT #82 of 1416
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Oh, thank God, the Monday deadline is for ONE section of this current big project.

Oh, email, you are my friend today!!


Calli - Jun 10, 2011 10:16:36 am PDT #83 of 1416
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

As a tech writer, I had trouble for my first two jobs because the stuff I'd worked on was confidential. Couldn't take any samples with me.

I had a similar situation when I applied for this job. I ended up sending an article I'd written for a freelance job 10 years earlier. I think the hiring manager had to check a box marked "writing sample sent in," and that got it done.


Jesse - Jun 17, 2011 6:21:04 am PDT #84 of 1416
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

FYI, here are some suggested guidelines for editorial freelancers: [link]


Strix - Jun 17, 2011 6:26:45 am PDT #85 of 1416
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Great link, Jesse. Thanks!

I've been using Writer's Market 2010; it's nice to have a comparison.


Strix - Jun 20, 2011 6:38:20 am PDT #86 of 1416
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

GRRRRRRRR.....I lost a day's worth of writing when I lost power Thursday night, and didn't know it until a few minutes ago.

It's gone...no autorecover or anything.

FABULOUS. I so have time to rewrite a day's worth of work!


Ginger - Jun 20, 2011 7:47:26 am PDT #87 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Have you tried searching for words you know are in the article, Erin? Sometimes things lurk as temporary files.