I wrote a thing.

[feuervogel]

Some d00d wrote a post about why writers should always say yes when people ask them to do stuff because "you never know!" I thought that was an incredibly privileged position to take, and I blogged about it because I didn't want to flood twitter.

Enjoy.

Comments

[warpig1979.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this has been the furore of the week, after someone outed the Atlantic for asking freelancers to send them articles gratis.

I don't see the question as all that complicated. I can see volunteering for a production where everyone is a volunteer. I didn't mind giving Animazement my time for free. But if you're giving it up for free so someone else can get paid, chances are they're on the grift and you're the mark.

[feuervogel]

I completely missed the whole Atlantic thing. I saw the Salesses post when someone I follow on twitter shared it (approvingly) and decided it was a pile of dung.

Yeah. It's not hard. Like, there have been charity anthologies where writers have given their work for free, but it's for *charity.* And they made the decisions themselves whether to do it or not based on whatever criteria they think are important. With SFF writing, there are levels of markets--SFWA qualifying (pro), semi-pro, and token. Some semi-pro markets are rather prestigious, even if they pay less and won't get you into SFWA. They have high editorial standards and publish some really good stuff. Some writers really want to get into Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, even if it's 3c/word and not qualifying, because it's got cachet.

BTW, did you get my email about Saturday?

[ladyegreen.livejournal.com]

You raised some very good points.

[feuervogel]

Thanks :)

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday

And thanks for the points you raised btw. My mania end of my bipolar will commit me to EVERYTHING with no sense of my time avaiable and the time required to DO IT ALL. It can be a very bad path to go down.

[feuervogel]

Thanks!

And yeah, sometimes our brain chemistry doesn't help us any, either.