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By: lwidmer

lwidmer — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:31:53 +0000

In reply to Paige. Thanks, Paige!

By: Paige

Paige — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 06:14:49 +0000

Great article–shared!

By: lwidmer

lwidmer — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:12:05 +0000

In reply to Devon Ellington.

Exactly that, Devon. The less they pay, the more they seem to dictate and hand down orders. And without fail, they’re the same ones who have to be prodded into payment.

Not that higher pay eliminates that. The experience where the client chose to argue (actually chose to talk to me like you would a five-year-old who’s in trouble) was a higher-paying gig. But there were factors I didn’t see — someone scratching and clawing to keep a job, higher-ups who were changing the rules with every draft — that I couldn’t control. That client could have, but chose instead to single me out as the problem.

We freelancers make for the most convenient scapegoats, don’t we?

By: Devon Ellington

Devon Ellington — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:57:02 +0000

The better the pay, the better the editors and the experience working with the clients, unless it’s a ghostwriting gig. But I generally only take ghostwriting gigs when hired by the publisher, not the writer, so I have that buffer.

In my experience, the lower the pay, the more they want to wrangle, and the longer they take to pay.