Artwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Setbacks Part Two Kristine Kathryn Rusch Last week, I wrote about setbacks. As has always been the case with these topics, they’re more involved than I initially plan. Sure, I can write about setbacks in 2000 words, but I can’t write about them in depth. So I started in-depth last week, and I got through two of my four categories. Let’s see how far I get this week. To review, I listed four major categories of setbacks. I know, I know, there are a million subcategories, but I can’t deal with a million, not and retain my sanity. The four major categories are: 1. Financial 2. Mechanical/technical/production 3. Physical 4. Emotional If you want to review the first two, check out last week’s post. Let’s move … Read entire article »

Artwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Setbacks Part One Kristine Kathryn Rusch Let’s start this section by being completely honest: Setbacks hurt. And I don’t simply mean that they hurt your business. They hurt personally. They’re embarrassing, difficult, infuriating, and terrifying. They make us feel as if this hasn’t happened to anyone else before ever, and yet they happen to all of us. They happen in successful businesses as well as unsuccessful ones. They happen in start-ups and they happen in long-term businesses. The real key with setbacks isn’t preventing them; it’s surviving them when they happen. Over the years, I’ve become a connoisseur of setbacks. I’m not interested in other people’s misfortunes (except as a grist for my own fiction), but I am interested in how other … Read entire article »