One of the challenges with ghostwriting is timing projects in such a way that payment is more or less smooth. I try to set up monthly payments when I contract for a book, and that works, except when it doesn’t.
For example:
One of my contracts needs to be renegotiated because conditions changed. I won’t know […]
Back in the day, I got involved with web design because I saw, and still see, the web as another publishing medium. We didn’t have html editors then, and I learned some code.
From time-to-time I’d take on a client and do their websites, and it drove me nuts! Or they drove me nuts, or something. […]
Writing projects come in all sorts of stripes. When people think of freelance writers they usually are thinking either magazine articles or novels. Articles have an end point – the right number of words and acceptance by the publisher.
Books, either fiction or non, and other long writing projects, often seem hard to end. Sometimes it’s […]
Because I do my writing from home, I usually plan my errands and appointments to act as breaks from my writing. Today, time really got away from me.
My real estate agent called about 9:30 and asked me to meet her at an interesting property; I agreed, and it is interesting. I had an appointment at […]
Today’s been a strange day… I’ve had a migraine, which is now, thank goodness, gone, but put me back in bed long before I got to blogging today.
When, around 2 p.m. it began to break up, I tried to log onto the net and I had no DSL connection – I’d had one earlier, and […]
I am so spoiled!
Against my better judgment I made an appointment for 8:30 this morning – one that required me to travel north on Interstate 805, one of San Diego’s commuting corridors. According to Google maps, the office I was headed for is only about 12 miles from my house, but I knew it […]
Every now and again I start a thread called “What’s on Your Desk?” And I’m always reassured that I’m not the only writer in the world with stacks of paper, weird stuffed animals and various other mysterious items like a small wooden board or two small boxes with printer ink.
Well today, for reasons that are […]
A client asked me to do some copywriting/copyediting on several web pages and he asked me to use Word’s track changes (under tools) so he could see what I am suggesting.
The theory is good, but I’m never sure the results are worth it. The manuscript is now all cluttered up with red lines and […]
Don’t do this to yourself!Don’t make your writing clients goat dance to communicate with you.
I just sent an email to a friend who runs her own business… it bounced with a message saying her email box is too full to take more messages. Next I tried to return a phone call to a potential […]
At least one person in our forum had real goat dancing type problems on Friday the 13th. On the other hand, I had a great day. I secured nine months of base income and had a good session with my tax person. It wasn’t until Saturday that my goat dance begun.
First, I couldn’t get my […]
Making good money as a freelance writer
Written by Anne Wayman [email] for b5media.
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