On professional trajectories (2 of 3): Other freelance writers.

Like a month or two ago, I caught up with a colleague from my doctoral program who has done some popular writing and has been successful at it.

She mentioned that one publication that had recently been started up a few years ago out of a university, is already shut down. A little staff turnover, and bam, it shut down (did that staff turnover trigger it, or did staff leave because the writing was on the wall? - who knows).

Also, the president of a civic organization that I'm a part of recently mentioned to me that a friend of his who's a journalist had an entire article written for a place, and then the publication was shut down before he got paid, and he had this entire thing written and he was stuck with it, after putting all of those hours in.