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, ...

On Sunday, a freelance writer was, presumably, paid for his work; it’s becoming a rare thing. Tim Kreider published an essay in the New York Times dictating that writers ought never write for free.

In 2013, an editor at The Atlantic contacted freelance journalist Nate Thayer. They asked him to repurpose one of his articles for free. “We unfortunately can’t pay you for it,” they said, “but we do ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...