Category Archives: freelance writing

A Two Year Assessment of Freelancing

Tuesday I conducted an interview for an article I’m writing for Buildipedia.com. A professor at my alma mater, the University of Rhode Island, is conducting research into using asphalt pavement for collecting solar engery. He’s also looking into research for related things, but the solar energy from pavement interests me the most. I wrote an …

April 28, 2011 – 2:09 pm | By David Todd | Posted in freelance writing | Comments (0)

Posts in Real Time

I have been away on a working vacation from February 17 until today. I attended the annual conference of the International Erosion Control Association, where I delivered three papers, met a lot of the leadership, and attended my first meeting as a member of the Professional Development Committee. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday were all business. The …

February 28, 2011 – 5:13 am | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, Documenting America, freelance writing, Suite 101 | Comments (0)

A Chapter Here, An Article There

So far this weekend has been productive. I wrote and posted one article at Suite101.com. I don’t think it’s one of my better articles, but it’s up and available for making money. I wrote a chapter in Documenting America. This was with research and writing complete in one day. I also did a little bit …

February 6, 2011 – 10:13 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Documenting America, freelance writing, Mom's Letter, Suite 101 | Comments (0)

The Storm is Almost Here

The winter storm that is so much in the news is bearing down on us. The winter storm warning from the National Weather Service starts at 6:00 PM tonight for us, so that probably means we’ll start getting some frozen stuff around 8 PM. The forecast has called for sleet, ice, snow, mixture—it keeps changing. …

January 31, 2011 – 1:47 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, Documenting America, freelance writing, Suite 101, Writing | Comments (0)

A Little Bit of Progress

I have two main writing tasks at present: Complete as many chapters as possible in the first volume of Documenting America. Complete the article I’m under contract to write for Safe Highway Matters. On the second one, I’m having trouble getting hold of various sources the editor suggested. I’ve done all the research I can …

January 28, 2011 – 1:23 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Documenting America, freelance writing, research | Comments (0)

The Freelance Writing Report

I wrote yesterday that I had a good day of writing, being at home due to the snow storm. That continued into the evening, as I completed the research on the next chapter of Documenting America, and wrote most of it. I also did the work I needed to do on Life Group class teaching …

January 21, 2011 – 9:36 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, freelance writing, Suite 101 | Comments (0)

Snow Day Writing Report

It’s 4 PM. I’m at home, at my dinosaur computer in The Dungeon, writing away. Yesterday the forecast was for snow starting around 11:00 PM, 3-5 inches accumulation, or maybe 4-7 inches, depending on who you believe. I e-mailed my boss to say I wasn’t going to be in on Thursday, and I reported on …

January 20, 2011 – 10:02 pm | By David Todd | Posted in Documenting America, freelance writing, self-publishing, Writing | Comments (0)

Freelancing – Can this Rose Bloom Again?

It isn’t all as bad as the title of this post sounds. Actually, my Buildipedia.com writing goes well. I had a conference call with the editor this afternoon, and he gave me another assignment. Don’t know if it will be a $100 or $250 article, but I suspect the former. Ah well. But, with the …

September 29, 2010 – 2:17 am | By David Todd | Posted in Buildipedia, freelance writing, Suite 101 | Comments (0)

Oh for a Holiday Weekend

Labor Day weekend is upon us. My supervisor, the CEO, usually comes around early afternoon and tells us we can leave early, somewhere around 3:00 or 3:30 PM. I usually don’t, but might do so this time. While it’s a holiday, with one extra day, I have much to accomplish. Here’s a sampling. We had …

September 3, 2010 – 6:20 pm | By David Todd | Posted in freelance writing, home improvements, reading, Writing | Comments (0)

A Few Thoughts About Internet Content Sites

The battle is raging concerning the type of writing known as Internet content sites. That’s the type of site Suite101.com, where I write, is. The pejorative term applied to them is content mill or content farm. Some call them content aggragators. I think I’ll stick with content site for now. Those who consider themselves journalists …

July 23, 2010 – 5:26 pm | By David Todd | Posted in content writing, freelance writing, Suite 101 | Comments (0)