They say a freelancer shouldn’t think in terms of dollars-per-word but rather dollars-per-hour.

Fifty bucks for a writing assignment can be either a lot of money or very little money depending on the circumstances. If it takes only an hour to complete said assignment…you’ve just made 50 bucks an hour. However, if it takes 10 hours to complete, you’re not even earning minimum wage. (And if it takes 50 hours to complete, you might as well be working for free.)

But how do you quantify the time spent tossing and turning in bed, late in the morning, trying to figure things out for that “big assignment”? (Sadly, this is the period when I get my best ideas.)

Aww who am I kidding. Writing pays like shit no matter how you look at you at it.