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Yay! Another milestone passed.
Jul. 12th, 2003 08:22 pmWell, I finished the polished version of my commissioned story today... or nearly so. I'll let it rest a day or two, then go back and tweak it a little, and tighten up the wording. But for all intents and purposes, it's finished. I provide it here, for your pleasure, under a cut.
( The Golden Star Child )
The woman who commissioned me to write this story asked me to set my own price -- that I should think of it in terms of what a healer would charge, keeping in mind that it might become at least a semi-regular gig: creating art for individuals, either as a healing act or as gifts for others.
At first, I thought of charging by the hour -- $10 for the first hour, $1 for every hour after that. But I could not think about the clock and be creative at the same time. So I decided on a flat fee for a minimum, and a little bit extra for writing over the minimum.
As I see it, tarot reading (and other divination counselling) is the closet thing "out there" to storytelling in the new-agey healer circles. And I've heard that a common price range for a tarot reading is between $20 and $25. So I've decided to charge $20 for the first 4,000 words of a narrative (roughly 16 pages, typed, double-spaced) and 25c for each 250 words (roughly one page) after that. ... And $10 for a non-narrative poem.
What do you think?
( The Golden Star Child )
The woman who commissioned me to write this story asked me to set my own price -- that I should think of it in terms of what a healer would charge, keeping in mind that it might become at least a semi-regular gig: creating art for individuals, either as a healing act or as gifts for others.
At first, I thought of charging by the hour -- $10 for the first hour, $1 for every hour after that. But I could not think about the clock and be creative at the same time. So I decided on a flat fee for a minimum, and a little bit extra for writing over the minimum.
As I see it, tarot reading (and other divination counselling) is the closet thing "out there" to storytelling in the new-agey healer circles. And I've heard that a common price range for a tarot reading is between $20 and $25. So I've decided to charge $20 for the first 4,000 words of a narrative (roughly 16 pages, typed, double-spaced) and 25c for each 250 words (roughly one page) after that. ... And $10 for a non-narrative poem.
What do you think?
