It Really Will End – I Promise

I don’t know a single freelance writer who doesn’t occasionally hire on to a project that seems like it will never end. Sometimes it’s because the client keeps adding things or changing their mind, in which case you have every right to bill for extra time.
But sometimes projects get extended for reasons that no one has any control over.

A while back I wrote about my entry in to the world of academia. At the time I wrote, my client expected to turn in the final draft of his thesis in a couple of weeks. It was not to be. His advisor fell ill, and after several weeks, he was assigned a new advisor. That meant further revisions because, of course, the new advisor had to get his licks in. They were all minor – a name added to the acknowledgements, a typo that no one had caught.

Finally, my client was able to turn in a completed thesis and go through the defense with flying colors. Today I pick up what I’m now calling the final final final edits – again minor, and we’ll both be done.

For a while there, neither of us were sure we’d ever finish. It’s hard to tell which one of us is happier about the end of this project.

Write will and often,

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