{"id":2968,"date":"2009-01-26T19:30:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2009-01-26T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T19:30:19","slug":"growing-pains-a-freelancers-follow-up-by-devon-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/26\/growing-pains-a-freelancers-follow-up-by-devon-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Pains:  A freelancer&#8217;s follow-up &#8211; by Devon Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/travelingtastebuds.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Devon Brown<\/strong><\/a> (Tokyo-to, 2002-04) is a freelance writer with a focus on food.\u00a0 You can read more of her writing at <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingtastebuds.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TravelingTastebuds.blogspot.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/travelingtastebuds.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/growing-pains.html\" target=\"_blank\">In a recent post titled &#8220;Growing Pains&#8221;<\/a>, she sought some perspective on the business of freelance writing.\u00a0 In a subsequent JetWit post, we aggregated the <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/14\/freelance-writing-q-and-a\/\">responses of writers in the JET alum community<\/a> in response to Devon&#8217;s question.\u00a0 Below she shares her new perspective:<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Growing Pains: A follow up on an over edited piece by a newbie freelance writer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The jury is in and it seems I&#8217;ll just have to man up.<\/p>\n<p>The freelance writing world can be a cold hard place and the fact that I&#8217;m getting paid and will have a byline in a national mag is going to have to be consolation for my hurt ego.\u00a0 The rational part of me knows that magazines have their own voice and until I&#8217;m so big and famous that they&#8217;re willing to pay me $5 for every single word I type, I&#8217;m gonna have to deal.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who offered up some insight.\u00a0 I \u00a0heard of some horror stories that I hope to never experience myself.<\/p>\n<p>On the upside, I did get a final PDF of my piece.\u00a0 Seeing it in print was awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devon Brown (Tokyo-to, 2002-04) is a freelance writer with a focus on food.\u00a0 You can read more of her writing at TravelingTastebuds.blogspot.com. 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