Business writing contact is done within normal business hours.

However, script work, fiction, and articles are done as needed — they are arenas that are not 9-5, and if I’m hired to write an article about an event on a weekend, sure I’ll do it, provided it’s a legitimate price and not someone offering ten bucks for a 1200 word article.

Script work often is done with weekend turnaround time. It’s the nature of the business, and the price is reflected in that.

I’m much stricter with clients within the corporate realm than outside of it, because most of their “emergencies” are caused by internal incompetence and are not genuine emergencies. Also, the only way they understand the value of the work they want is by the dollar figure attached.

I have floating days off, so I’m not bound by a Mon.-Fri. workweek. The entire reason I freelance is so that I’m not boxed in by so-called “normal” schedules.

I have bended once or twice, as they were also “writing emergencies”, and I did charge a higher hourly rate.