It seems every time I actually get to sign a ghostwriting contract there’s a flurry of additional activity that catches me by surprise.
First, there’s my, what, excitement? That always takes a few minutes and usually a call or two of celebration. Often this is followed by another few moments of “I can’t get this done” […]
Setting rates is always a challenge. wordpreneur.com has an interesting approach. Blogger Eldon Sarte calls it a Profit Goal approach. To make his forumula work, you’ve got to know some things:
Your net goal for the year
The numbers of hours you’ll work for the year
Your weekly overhead
It’s simple to go from this information to an hourly […]
Every now and again a potential ghostwriting client will offer me a percentage of the book instead of payment. Although I’ve never taken a percentage with no payment, I have, in the past, reduced my fee for a percentage.
It’s never worked. That is, I’ve never received any additional payment. And I’ve been pretty careful. […]
One of the reasons I like charging flat fees rather than by the hour is because of writing and editing ideas that appear while I’m in the shower. I don’t know about you, the shower is so often a creative place for me that if I’m feeling dull I’ll take a shower!
Here’s how this applies […]
At least a couple of times a week I post a writing job that is paid via revenue share. Revenue share simply means that the website – usually a blog – isn’t paying per word or per post, but on the basis of money earned via advertising.
I post these jobs because, over time, I’ve taken […]
Matt Glover is a freelance cartoonist and blogs at Chewing Pencils. (See, it’s not just us writers who chew pencils!) He’s got a great story he tells on himself about a job he almost gave away.
It’s called Clients and Emotions and it’s definitely food for thoughts for freelance writers and editors.
Incidentally, although Matt’s work […]
You answer an ad and they respond, telling you they love you and they have a ton of work coming. Visions of dollars dance in your head.
You sign a contract for $x a month, and for the first month or two, payments arrive promptly, and then stop. All your efforts to contact the client end […]
Arghhhhh… I’m trying to renegotiate a writing contract and I’m having real trouble understanding the numbers involved… I sent what I thought was a clear proposal to the client and he’s replied, but his understanding of the dollar amount is quite different than mine.
After spending yet another half hour on this I realized that I […]
Lori Widmer, freelance writer, has a nifty article on establishing a routine for invoicing clients. She’s right, however you get the billing done, it should be automatic.
I don’t keep many paper files, so although my plan is similar, it’s all on my computer. For example, I blog twice a week for Senior BofI; […]
We freelance writers and editors can sometimes seem obsessed by our pay. It’s not, I think, because we are more mercenary than those with jobs, but the irregular nature of our pay checks provides lots of space for confusion.
Sharlene Thomas, writer, forum member and host of Bella Online’s Career Training site has a great article […]
Making good money as a freelance writer
Written by Anne Wayman [email] for b5media.
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