12 true things no one tells you about freelance writing

Oh, sure, freelance writing can be hard and lonely, yet rewarding and exhilarating.

We all know that.

But here’s a list of all the other stuff nobody ’fesses up about.

If you’re a freelance writer you will:

1. Threaten to give up the glamour-life and get a fulltime job no less than once every 30 days.
2. Fantasize about screaming at/harming your clients.
3. Lament your pathetic life early and often.
4. Be wildly jealous of other writers and occasionally of the guy driving the trash truck.
5. Google-stalk other writers to see if you can duplicate their life.
6. Consider yourself the greatest writer that ever walked the face of the earth.
7. Consider yourself the worst writer that ever walked the face of the earth.
8. Be certain that someone plagiarized part of all of your work.
9. Do a half-crap draft just to get something down on paper.
10. Take a nap instead of work.
11. Lose track of billable hours and have to eat the cost.
12. Be unavailable to PITA clients the way Marcia Brady had “something suddenly come up” in the Brady Bunch episode called “The Subject Was Noses.”

Your turn:

• C’mon, spill it. Post your confessions for all to see (and relate to).
  

By JanO on 5/13/11, In freelance writing