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How to succeed as a freelance technical writer
Literate lessons from lockdown life
So you want to be a freelance technical writer? Maybe not, but maybe you’re at least wondering:
- What does a technical writer do?
- What’s it like working as a freelancer for a startup?
- How does it feel working remotely for a product launch?
Hopefully, I can answer those questions and shed some small insight into working remotely, as a freelance writer, for an exciting startup.
The setup
Quix is a small startup with a very strong team, headed by four McLaren engineers. Their work is, quite frankly, mind-bogglingly complex. They’re fighting the good fight: taking a pile of complicated concepts and technologies, wrapping them up into a manageable package, and selling access to a much-improved way of working. Classic SaaS stuff.
The mission revolves around data streaming. Even for a technical-minded writer such as myself, it’s a world of confusing terminology, acronyms, and opaque concepts.
