Comments on: Your Boundary-a-Day Freelance Career https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/02/your-boundary-a-day-freelance-career.html a freelance writing resource. Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:33:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: lwidmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/02/your-boundary-a-day-freelance-career.html#comment-17278 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:33:58 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6506#comment-17278 In reply to Anne Wayman.

Anne, I wouldn’t mind it so much if it were a dating profile — that’s different. No, this client wanted me to write an actual love letter telling this man how much she adores him (and using my words, not hers, to do so). While Cyrano de Bergerac may have thought it was okay, it felt icky to me. I’d be professing my undying love and devotion to a man I’d never meet. For someone else. Ew.

]]> By: Anne Wayman https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/02/your-boundary-a-day-freelance-career.html#comment-17274 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:57:13 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6506#comment-17274 Lori, I’ve had clients ask me to cross a boundary. Generally when I’ve explained why it isn’t ethical and why that means it won’t work over time they usually agree to do it in an ethical way. Mostly they just didn’t know. If they won’t make that switch I won’t write.

Not sure I totally agree with you re dating profiles. When I worked at match.com back in the day we would sometimes help a client with their profile. I don’t recall every writing one from scratch, but pointing out some issues seemed okay to me then. I haven’t been asked in ages, but I think I might be willing to help… or even to ghost under the right circumstances… after all I’ll ghost whole books. Worth thinking about… thanks for that example.

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