I clicked a link on twitter today passed on by Niall Stanage, via Nadine O’Regan at the SBP, and thoroughly enjoyed reading “Seven years as a freelance writer, or how to make vitamin soup”
Awesome piece that articulates the freelance condition accurately.
Choice quote:
“The editor will never choose you over the publication to which they are married. It will not even be a fleeting thought in the editor’s mind. The freelancer can have a lot of fun, but is ultimately the editor’s plaything. And any one freelancer is, above all things, unnecessary and replaceable. I always felt like the most fumbling juggling act in the industry.”
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