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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

May 8th, 2008

What I Did - Broken Appointments

A few days ago told you about a ghostwriting client who broke several telephone appointments and then requested a Saturday appointment even though I normally don’t work weekends. I asked you what you would do.
Most who responded felt there was no need to meet the client on the weekend, although one said they would if […]

By Anne Wayman -- 6 comments

August 30th, 2007

When Clients Don’t Understand Their Writing Projects

Prospective clients call and email me. The best really know what they want. Maybe it’s a ghostwriter for a book. Or maybe it’s a writing coach to help them get a book or other piece of writing done, or for more general help with their freelance writing career.
Then there are the clients who either don’t […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

June 7th, 2007

Writing Clients and Response Time

Over in our forum we had a question about how long to wait for a client’s response to an email. As I understood it, the writer had a new client who hadn’t responded to an email for a couple of days. The writer had started to panic a bit and wondered what to do.
There […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

May 30th, 2007

Don’t Hesitate to Ask Your Writing Client Lots of Questions

Our clients look at us as experts, and we are, more or less. After all, we know how to get words on paper in a way that others find pleasing or informative or entertaining or interesting to read. That doesn’t mean we get everything right.
I have a contract to write about a particular breed of […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

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