When are publishers (AND writers) going to get it through their thick skulls ... that it doesn't pay to write for free? Was that a bad pun or just a lousy choice of words?
Case in point: the AOL memo to the writers it canned. You're fired, but we'd love for you to write for us for free!
Well, sure. Why not? What else do unemployed writers have to do except wear their fingers out to the bone writing sh*t for free and collect unemployment while someone else gets the financial benefit of their efforts?
Oh, but I forgot! What about all that wonderful exposure? Yeah, right. Well, I've got something to expose. And I think the title of this blog sums it up pretty well. Thanks, Kathy Kehrli for the AOL article. :)
But I'll let Harlan Ellison have the last word! :)
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