Writing On Spec

Someone on our forum who both writes and designs pointed to no!spec.com. The post included a mild and reasonable rant about people who want designers to do a lot of designing on the theory they will get paid if the client likes it. I hadn’t even realized designers were asked to work that way, and I too am opposed to it.
I certainly wouldn’t do much writing for a client who said he’d pay me if he liked it.
But there is a place for writing on spec, and that’s the new writer breaking into the magazine business, or the not-yet-famous …read more