Archive for April 1st, 2008

It’s never easy

April 1, 2008
By Diana Burrell

Tonight an e-mail from a particularly successful magazine writer popped in my inbox. A couple minutes later another e-mail followed. Both of tonight’s e-mails were requests for sources for two articles the writer was working on, one for a magazine that many freelancers would consider the Holy Grail of publications. She does this a...
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Fire Your Worst Client

April 1, 2008
By Linda Formichelli

We all have one — a PITA client that requires six rewrites, offers awful contracts, and/or pays peanuts. Dumping your bottom client will give you time to pitch better assignments, and, at the risk of sounding “out there,” there’s something about making room in your life for new things that encourages them to flow...
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