Comments on: Freelance Writers Behaving Badly https://wordsonpageblog.com/2021/11/freelance-writing-blog-101.html a freelance writing resource. Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:44:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: lwidmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2021/11/freelance-writing-blog-101.html#comment-23167 Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:44:51 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=8271#comment-23167 In reply to Paula Hendrickson.

I do remember, Paula. Never claim you’ve been published somewhere when it’s so freaking easy to check….

You do it right — you put your butt in the chair and do the work instead of fussing about impressing people with the clips.

]]> By: Paula Hendrickson https://wordsonpageblog.com/2021/11/freelance-writing-blog-101.html#comment-23122 Fri, 05 Nov 2021 18:56:42 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=8271#comment-23122 Years ago, a writer (and you, Lori may recall who I’m talking about, but I won’t mentioned who it was) claimed on her website to have written for one of the major entertainment trades I write for. That publication has a comprehensive, searchable database dating back decades and this other writer’s byline was no where to be found. So I called her on it. She claimed she must have confused it with their biggest competitor (which sadly for her also has a massive searchable database).

I can only assume that she searched my client’s database and found hundreds of my bylines, because she then started asking me which editors I worked with there. I worked hard to earn my contacts there, so I certainly wasn’t about to share my contacts with a hack writer who had lied about writing for them. I think I told her to look them up online like I did.

Update: that writer still hasn’t had a byline in that publication, and I have yet another assignment due there in about 10 days.

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