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 lot …

Apr 1, 2008 Personal yammerings

Fire Your Worst Client

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 in.

You …

Apr 1, 2008 Advice, Observations