If you want to write for a living, you should write for free. Hell, if you already do write for a living, you should write for free. And that free writing should be some of your best work. Unless ...

Writing is a tough gig. There's just no way around that. Whether you want to write in print for a magazine, or for your favorite website, there's a lot of time and work to be done before you get there ...

I’m new to writing and would like to break into freelance work. I have been given an opportunity to write a column for an online journal but they cannot afford to pay me. Should I work for free? Wow, ...

When Nate Thayer posted his exchange with an Atlantic editor asking him to contribute to the site for free, he sparked a huge debate over whether writers should ever be expected to go unpaid. The ...

No more "leave behinds," says the union, in an effort to end a slippery slope that leads to unpaid writing and rewriting. By Jonathan Handel The Writer Guild agreement prohibits uncompensated writing ...

This is Rob Long with Martini Shot on KCRW. No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. Said Samuel Johnson, at some point, to someone. Good advice. Years ago, I used to write occasionally for ...

Unless they're independently wealthy, I don't believe anyone should work for free. However, I will admit that I have written for free. And I continue to do so somewhat compulsively. You see, there's ...

The strange, kind of funny, mostly sad saga of BrashGames seems to have drawn to a close. The website rose to notoriety after writers began complaining that the mysterious owner of the site would do ...

Repair cars…for free! Fix elevators…gratis! Clean a stranger’s toilet…out of the goodness of your heart! In any other field, even the notion of working for free causes an eye twitch of cognitive ...