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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

July 28th, 2008

How do I ask for payment without seeming tacky? Ask Anne, the Pro Writer

(www.thegoldenpencil.com)
Hi Anne,
I sold an article to a trade magazine. They published it a couple of months ago, but I haven’t been paid yet. How do I ask for payment without seeming tacky?
cs
Hi cs,
What’s tacky about asking for what you’re owed? I’m still not at all sure why many writers seem to be embarrassed about […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

March 12th, 2008

Don’t Ever Hesitate To Send An Invoice!

I suspect that it seems I have my writing life pretty well together. After all, if you’re a regular reader, you know that I usually post a couple of times a day, six days a week. I talk about contracts and successes quite a bit. All of which is true.
I also have my moments. Well […]

By Anne Wayman -- 4 comments

June 14th, 2007

Billing Your Clients

With most of my projects, I try to set up either regular payments or pay per benchmark. For example, I’m ghostwriting an ebook on cats. We agreed I’d be paid 20% when the first chapter was complete. (I blew getting up front payment, but that’s another story.)
As often happens in a writing project, I’ve completed […]

By Anne Wayman -- 5 comments

April 14th, 2007

Gads I Can’t Add and Subtract!

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 […]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

April 10th, 2007

Of Invoicing and Late Fees

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; […]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

October 11th, 2006

Writers and Invoices

I don’t know about you, but I’m not always too sharp about tracking invoices. At the moment, I set up a tickler in my goal/calendar program (GoalPro) to remind me when an invoice is due.
When it’s time, I create the invoice in Word and file it in my invoice folder with a filename that reflects […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments