Podcast with Polish Translations Expert Sylwia Biczyk

Podcast with Polish Translations Expert ┃ Creative writing
facilitator ┃ Transforming the way linguists build their brand on
LinkedIn by leveraging creative writing to produce authentic
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Skript, whatsapp to +49 1719430074 Good morning, this is Cosimo
Marraffa and Sylwia Biczyk and we will today go through the 6D
process. And, Sylwia Biczyk will give us her viewpoint on how her
time is being until now, how she is going forward. But before we
start, Sylvia, please tell us, who are you, what you are doing,
what you are why are you here. Hello Cosmo and thank you so much
for inviting me over. My name is Sylvia, and I'm an
English-to-Polish business translator located in Warsaw, Poland.
I've been a translator for over 14 years. About a year ago, I
started experimenting with creative writing as a way to express
myself and build an authentic presence on social media. This is
all related to my job, because as a translator, I'm very
high-quality-oriented, very much trying to convey my client's
message. Sometimes this is limiting when I want to express myself
on social media because on social media I use completely
different writing skills, so I'm not supposed to be high-quality,
I'm not supposed to be super faithful or be very analytical. For
content creation, you need a completely different set of skills
and so I had to teach myself new skills if I wanted to build a
successful online presence. And this journey helped me to create
a space for fellow linguists and other freelancers where we can
practice our writing, share our pieces and just brainstorm ideas
so that for all of us, the online presence is a source of joy and
pleasure and not a stress and frustration. Wow, this sounds
interesting, thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing and if
we ask you what one challenge that you had in the past was and
how you got to overcome it, what would you imagine here? Being
present on LI was hard, I had a love-hate relationship because on
one hand I knew that it was a platform for professionals where I
was supposed to market myself, where I was supposed to show my
expertise, but at the same time I felt a lot of frustration
because I felt I had no ideas. I felt that translation is not a
sexy subject and so there was a lot of frustration in me because
I just couldn't express myself freely because I had high
expectations and just felt potential clients will judge me based
on what I write. So there was a lot of self-doubt and frustration
and one day I just had enough I told myself that something needed
to change and I had a vision in front of my eyes of what the
situation would be like, what the ideal situation would be. I
would like, in six months, my clients to find me on LinkedIn;
they would love my posts, they would love to work with me and
everybody would be very happy to find each other on LinkedIn. And
I thought to do that I needed to work on my writing skills. So I
found a quick writing course which I took and I liked it so much
that after I completed it, I said to myself that I would try to
write just for myself for 10 minutes every day. And to see where
it goes. So, I did and at first, they were just little pieces
that I wrote for 10 minutes, nothing special. I’d take a photo or
I write about the conversation that I overheard. Over time, it
got easier to write and it gave me a lot of pleasure. It was fun
to write something creative and to come up with ideas. Over 3
months, I noticed that not only did I have





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