Author: lwidmer

You do the job, you send the invoice and … nothing happens. You contact the client again. Some excuse or reason is given, or you resend what apparently hasn’t arrived and …. again, nada. It’s a song-and-dance you’re forced to shuffle along to, and you don’t like it one bit. I’m tapping out this particular…

For every writer who’s proclaimed “Writing is my life!” there are slews of overworked writers aiming a finger of their choice at them. Over on Tess Gerritsen’s blog there’s a discussion about writers who are pushed by publishing houses to crank out more and more work in less and less time. The discussion revolves around…

Recently, a writer friend and I were talking about the cyclical nature of our business. We may be in the pink today and in the soup tomorrow, for projects come and go like buses and men who are no good for us. She and I were discussing the times we nearly tossed it in. Yet…

Heard from a writer friend recently about a client who hired him to do one thing, yet proceeded to expect quite another. He was hired to do editing on the client’s manuals, yet now the client is expecting full rewrites (on a project he had no hand in from the start). A bit brazen, no?…

Fellow writer and consummate blogger Devon Ellington posted about the need for writers to buck up in their expectations of what they should earn. As she put it, “Yes, we ARE in a recession. Sometimes you need to take a job you don’t really want to make some quick cash. But don’t settle. Always strive…