In 1963, when addressing guests at Frankfurt’s St Paul’s Church, President John F Kennedy said, ‘For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.’
JFK’s quote came to mind when a magazine editor emailed to say they were dropping a section I’d regularly contributed to on a freelance basis for more than a decade. They’d reviewed their online content and decided to make several changes to what appeared in their print publication.
It was a shock. From a business perspective, while this client wasn’t a huge income stream for me, they were still an important one. As a freelancer, I can’t take anything for granted. Markets change, they always have done, but this one was sudden and unexpected.
It made me think about how my writing business had changed over the years. Fifteen years ago, I contributed short stories to the women’s magazine market. At that time, many women’s magazines had one, if not more, fiction slots in
