Writing on Medium.com clearly isn’t going to make me rich, and it will be some time before tour guiding so I’ve spent much of this week trying to work out how to make some income in the short term. I’m going to look for work as a technical writer. With hindsight, every time I did some tech writing back in my software engineering days, people always said it was good, and the guidebook to the observatory is proof that I can explain technical things to normal people.
I’m busy writing my CV and updating my profiles to mention this. Next week I have to get serious about putting my name out there.
I’ve also started work on the first draft of Pinch Me, as a reward to myself for all the self-marketing work. Even though I haven’t finished outlining yet, there are some scenes that are pretty clear in my mind, so I’m writing those. At worst, they won’t make it into the final novel but I’ll get to know my characters better. And as I said, it’s fun.
