How Professionals Roll
"To All the People Looking for Writers," from Best of Craigslist (Chicago)
A professional writer doesn't need "exposure", they need money.
"Top 10 Lies told to Naive Artists and Designers," from Painter Creativity
No reputable business person would first give away their work and time or merchandise on the hope of making it up later.
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No reputable business person would first give away their work and time or merchandise on the hope of making it up later.
Actually, it works this way in the automotive supply industry all the time. Suppliers' business strategy is typically to make up the initial (non-recurring) engineering expense in the piece price.
What's it mean if you've only fallen for five or six of the ten. That's okay, right?
On Exposure-
"You can $#%& DIE from exposure"
In conversation with artist Andrew Bavidamann
Origins Gaming Convention, July 07
Actually, it works this way in the automotive supply industry all the time. Suppliers' business strategy is typically to make up the initial (non-recurring) engineering expense in the piece price.
Point taken, but I'd say that what the people who typically put writers in this situation are usually asking them to give away is more like the manufctured widgets than the engineering expense of developing the widgets. The writers are being asked to give up the piece price, too, in hopes of another contract down the road.
A professional writer doesn't need "exposure", they need money.
The best part of this one is the mismatched pronoun/antecedent, as this presumably comes from a "professional writer."