My ‘Stable Door’ column for Freelancentral began with an open stable door and the freelancer (a.k.a the horse) escaping into an unfettered freelance life. Its first piece addressed the different types of clients to be wary of (the Boss, the Uninformed, the Briefless and the Buddy). For piece #2, I decided to look at the [...]
So there I was… Ignoring my pressing web copy deadline and fiddling about on Twitter. (Which is, I’ve realised, the exact opposite of minding your own business.) When I stumbled across a Multi-Re-Tweeted tweet on an article with the intro, ‘One of the worst mistakes copywriters make is to assume their job is about writing’. Sorry, what? [...]
I recently stumbled across a blog post by Laura Spencer, a freelance writer from North Central Texas. In it, she speaks about why she utterly refuses to give up on freelancing – inspiring me to nod my head so vigorously and so often that I’ve linked to her piece below. But first, here’s a taste: [...]
My article on ‘Getting the most from a freelance copywriter or editor‘ sparked lots of comments, but the majority came from freelancers with payment questions. So Jo Duxbury (of Freelancentral and Peppermint Source) and I collaborated to answer them. First, we opened the floor, inviting fellow freelancers to submit their payment-related questions. The questions are below; for the [...]
My new guest column, ‘The Stable Door’, went live on Freelancentral today, with its inaugural piece entitled (clumsily, but there’s no other way to put it), ‘Clients to be wary of’. The piece introduces four types of clients: The Boss (the client who thinks he’s your boss), The Uninformed (the client who has no idea [...]
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