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Herding clients? Get a good contract.

by Matthew Stibbe on January 21, 2010

I wrote a post two months back about when writers become lawyers. Sometimes writers are from Mars and clients are from Venus and we need some structure to the relationship.
John McGarvey has produced a really nice plain English contract for copywriting. I do things a bit differently but we share the same objectives:

Reducing scope [...]

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When writers become lawyers – how to agree terms with a client

by Matthew Stibbe on November 20, 2009

Every freelance writer has a story about the project from hell. Mine involves writing a 7,000-word in-house magazine in a month. By the third issue, thanks to unreasonableness from the client, it was 14,000 words in ten days. For the same money. There wasn’t a fourth issue.
So how do you avoid situations where the [...]

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Writers are from Mars, Clients are from Venus

by Matthew Stibbe on November 17, 2009

Freelance writing is the Stockholm syndrome erected into a profession. The terrorist holds a gun to our head and we love them for it. (Or more as a friend of mine said ‘we’re the battered wives of the media business.’)
Why do relationships between writers and clients go wrong?

Over-promising
Too-high expectations
Bad briefs
Writers don’t [...]

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