Happily for freelance translators everywhere, Alex Eames has revived his free ezine Tranfree. The current issue (71), features two excellent articles, one on “Getting the balance right: preventing and coping with staleness” by Alex himself, and “Tools that have brought smiles to my face, cheer to my heart and success in the mind-over-matter department (in [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Tranfree is back
Posted in Announcements on June 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
How to be a better proofreader
Posted in Translation quality on June 28, 2010 | 9 Comments »
If you’re looking to move up in the translation market, more effective proofreading is critical. If you’re the type of person who cringes at the sight of an error in print, make sure that your translations aren’t contributing to the problem, and give your clients that extra quality step that marks your service as above [...]
Tech tip: wrapping text around a table in OpenOffice
Posted in Technology on June 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This is a small tip but it really helped me on a recent project. Normally, OpenOffice Writer doesn’t allow you to wrap text around a table. So if you have a table on the left side of the page and text on the right side, it ends up looking like this: This can be a [...]
Thanks to…
Posted in Links on June 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Kwintessential for including Thoughts on Translation in their top 10 translation blogs for 2010! And congratulations to the other winners, they’re all in my feed reader! Jonathan Goldberg for interviewing me on his blog “Le mot juste en anglais.” And thanks to Marianne Reiner for the French translation!
Handling summer as a freelancing parent
Posted in Freelancing, Productivity, Working from home on June 14, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Here in Colorado, school has been out for a couple of weeks. Elsewhere in the U.S., summer vacation is fast approaching. If you’re a freelancing mom or dad, it’s both the best of times and the worst of times! Each morning in the summer, I wake up and have a little gratitude moment: I’m grateful [...]
Links from the translation blogosphere
Posted in Links on June 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Here are links to a few blog posts that I enjoyed reading this week: Jill Sommer on Freelancing means the freedom to say no. I think it’s all too common that freelancers, especially women freelancers, feel that they can never object to a client’s terms or requests. Thanks for this reminder, Jill! Sadly, Paula Dieli [...]
June discount on “How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator”
Posted in Announcements on June 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
During the month of June, you can purchase my book “How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator” from the publisher (Lulu) for $17.95 instead of the usual cover price of $19.95. Just use this link to Lulu’s site and then enter the coupon code SUMMERREAD305 when you check out. Fine print: you can only use [...]
