Freelance Problems @FreeWriterProbs

Freelance writer rage. Other freelance rage happily received. #freelanceproblems #freelancewriting #freelancelife Joined February 2017

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Freelance Problems @FreeWriterProbs

3 years ago

So much of this bullshit still around. Full-time, eight hour shifts, ten features a day… but it’s a fReElaNce writing gig, is it? Nah, mate.

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Guy Fitzmaurice 3.5% - I stand with Ukraine. @fitzmauriceg

3 years ago

@DotLepkowska @BootstrapCook @Telegraph The joys of being a freelancer! You are reminding me of similar experiences. I once had to show a company cashier my passport to get him to hand over a cheque for work I had done because "we don't know who you are". They would use any excuse they could to delay payment.

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dave @Dave808state

3 years ago

@DotLepkowska @BootstrapCook @Telegraph I'm a freelance engineer and it's the same when I chase payments. They make you feel like you're asking for a handout when you only want paying for the work you have done.

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Freelance Problems @FreeWriterProbs

3 years ago

Ok, this is somehow the grossest

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🎼Phil Robinson @PjrFoto

3 years ago

@BootstrapCook @Telegraph Not just writers: they published a photo of mine on Jan 5th - nothing yet.

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James " J.D." Oswald @SirBenfro

3 years ago

@BootstrapCook Good luck with that. I wrote them 1200 words that got used in a double page weekend spread a few years back. Never saw a penny.

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Martha Sprackland @mj_sprackland

3 years ago

Hello! Please pay your freelancers on time! * I've posted this before, but it is perennially useful – adding it to the bottom of invoices and sticking to it rigidly does (mostly) work. *Yes, this is a pointed tweet.

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Andrew Hunter Murray @andrewhunterm

4 years ago

I would like to post a 'best of' my 2021 work, but unfortunately all my best work this year has consisted of bitingly witty murmured observations delivered at soirées to shocked countesses, and as such transcends the Twitter form

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Gail Walden @GailWalden6

4 years ago

I am bankrupt but I have decided not to notice

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Elizabeth Hackett @LizHackett

4 years ago

I love writing because it combines my two favorite hobbies: sitting and self-doubt.

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Sonia Weiser weischoice.bsky.social @weischoice

4 years ago

What's the German word for when you've been writing professionally for almost 10 years but are somehow still unqualified for any appropriately paying writing jobs?

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Freelance Problems @FreeWriterProbs

4 years ago

Just in case I have any new freelances following me: do read this. The first year I did my own taxes, I fucked it so badly it ruined my budget for two years.

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Kiri Pr'chard-McLean @kiripritchardmc

4 years ago

Ah, the burning indignity of chasing payment for a job you did six months ago. Begging for money that’s rightfully yours from someone on a salary who can’t understand the urgency. Good to see this dance never goes away.

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Freelance Problems @FreeWriterProbs

4 years ago

Usually, the dog. Sometimes just spite.

Sophie Gallagher @SCFGallagher

4 years ago

Usually, the dog. Sometimes just spite.

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Nicola Brady @Nicola_Brady

4 years ago

I would love to read a piece from someone that's something along the lines of "I went cold water swimming and hated it - it was freezing and shit"

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Freelance Problems @FreeWriterProbs

4 years ago

I’ve not yet found a transcription software that recognises my voice as saying normal, human sentences. Otter and Descript work well enough for most interviewees, so I’m not desperate… I’m just worried about how weird my accent actually is.

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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella

4 years ago

I feel like maybe why freelance writing in media feels almost joyless to me these days is because other than boredom, I deeply know now that the industry depends on the labor of freelancers to maintain itself & also depends on exploiting us.