What’s on the iPod: I’m Shakin’ by Jack White I’m back again for the second installment of this month’s Writers Worth Month celebration. I promise you’ll hear from plenty of guest bloggers in the coming weeks. This week, short as it is, I wanted to talk price with you. Imagine this scenario: You contact a…
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Writers Worth Month: Having What It Takes
What’s on the iPod: Holy by Frightened Rabbit Welcome to the first day of the 6th Annual Writers Worth Month celebration! Started as just one day based on my rantings over fair pay, the event has grown to a month-long awareness campaign where we remind each other to realize the value our skills hold. When…
Organization Times Three
What’s on the iPod: Sweet Child O’ Mine by Guns ‘N Roses Weekends? Do people still have those? We are in full-blown wedding mode, and it’s about to get nuts. Saturday we were in Baltimore meeting one bride’s family. Sunday we were in Lancaster for another bride’s (my daughter’s) dress fitting. In two weeks we…
Writers Worth: Your What-the-hell Moment
What’s on the iPod: Take Off Your Sunglasses by Ezra Furman & the Harpoons Here I am, nearly three weeks since surgery, and I’m slowly beginning to feel back to normal. Every day seems a little easier in terms of walking, standing upright (you can’t imagine how tight the incision feels), and getting more mobile….
Writers Worth: A Dirty Little Secret About Pricing
Today’s enlightening guest post comes from Walt Kania, a freelance marketing writer who discovered an eye-opening secret about setting your price. Pricing is mostly in your head. Treat it that way. By Walt Kania I used to think that our fees as writers were pre-ordained by all sorts of fancy economic and accounting factors, like…
Writers Worth: A Different Kind of Proposition
Today’s guest post comes from the query free writer herself, Jennifer Mattern. Writers: What’s Your Value Proposition? By Jennifer Mattern In an earlier Writer’s Worth post, Lori talked about how freelance writers need to accept their own worth in order to charge professional rates for their services. She talked about some of the ways you…
Writers Worth: Deliver Your Walking Papers
Writers Worth: Giving it Away?
Still out convalescing. Today is a real treat. Paula Hendrickson, whose post appeared here Monday, alerted me to the following article, written by C. Hope Clark. I contacted Hope and explained my plight — my ongoing plight to raise awareness one writer at a time. Hope graciously agreed to let us reprint her original article…
Writers Worth: How to Find Your Best Employee
Writers Worth: Editors, Review Your Rates
Welcome to Writers Worth Week! For six years now, Writers Worth has become a mini-movement designed to help writers at all career stages find, and assert, their value in the marketplace. Over the years, it’s gone from one day of my pushing and fussing to a week of advice and strategies, to last year’s month-long…