Two weeks ago, I wrote what I thought would be a short post explaining a term I’d used, “the freelance scramble.” Only that post turned out longer than expected. In fact, I realized I had a short series here. The freelance scramble happens when the cash doesn’t flow the way that a writer expects it too. Longtime freelancers have learned the dance that I call […]
Business Musings: The Freelance Scramble Part Two: The Actual Scramble
I initially promised you in last week’s post that we’d discuss the bleakest of the bleak moments in a freelancer’s career—when no one pays, for whatever reason—and we will, just not this week. Because I wrote the next blog post, and honestly, aside from depressing me, I kept alluding to other important things I would get to. Instead, I’m putting that post last or second-to-last […]
Business Musings: The Freelance Scramble
In last week’s blog post, “The Hard Part,” I mentioned the freelance scramble in passing. I explained it in a parenthetical phrase thusly: The freelance scramble is, in short, pivoting to replace money lost with a new way of earning money. Tough, and not the way most people usually think. I knew that most people would just pass over the phrase and not give it […]
Business Musings: Things I Learned (Or Relearned) in 2014
In the past two weeks, I wrote two year-in-review posts, “What Traditional Publishing Learned in 2014,” and “Things Indie Writers Learned in 2014.” Those two posts came after I started this one. I’ve been writing bits of this one off and on since October, as the year has become clearer in my brain. Usually, I do a year-end analysis just for me, and there’s a […]
Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Giving Up On Yourself
I am in the process of adding some chapters to the Freelancer’s Guide, and updating a few others. This one has bothered me for nearly a year now, so I’m happy to redo it. Here’s the revised chapter that will go into the second edition of The Freelancer’s Survival Guide. Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Giving Up On Yourself Kristine Kathryn Rusch Amazing the difference eighteen months […]
Freelancer’s Survival Guide: The Benefits of Freelancing
Artwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: The Benefits of Freelancing Kristine Kathryn Rusch Several years ago, my career hit a serious downtown, the kind most careers never recover from. I made a series of bad business decisions, including hiring two terrible employees who did everything they could to gut my business. I compounded the initial mistakes by making more mistakes. On top […]
How Copyright Holders Make Money
So I was scanning the Washington Post this morning over breakfast, and I came across a beautiful article on how copyright holders make money. In fact, it’s a great article on how freelancers make money. I started the article, however, because it was about a guy who organizes road races and runs. Who knew? This article is a prime example of what my husband, Dean […]
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