I’ve Been Writing for Free for a Year. How Do I Start Charging Without Losing Everyone?

Somewhere in the last twelve months, you became “the writer friend.” You wrote the caption for your cousin’s boutique launch. You “helped out” with a founder’s LinkedIn post because you were free that weekend. You did a friend-of-a-friend’s website copy for exposure, then their sister’s blog for practice, then a stranger’s newsletter because it seemed … Read more