Consider'g Striking Out on Own as TW-Need Advice

[Margaret Alston <diamondvapor5 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Hello all
 
After many years as a captive technical writer, I am seriously considering strikign out on my own.
 
I have a question, for those of you who are freelancers - How do you/ what methods do you use for deciding what to dharge/ Specifically, do you charge by the estimated hours, by the project, project size, etc.
 
Also do you have a systematized way of deciding how long somethign might take to complete? I mean after doing this all these years I can usually guesstimate pretty accurately, but I have always done this an employee for someone else so it may be different if I go out on my own.
 
                                                                             
Does anyone have any ideas/advice that would help me? 
 
Thanks
 
M


      
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