The Freelance Writer: Journalism's Mistress

Richard Morgan has had an enviable freelance journalism career. He’s written for a number of publications including The New York Times, Playboy, Details, and National Geographic. He’s broken stories, traveled the world, won awards, and been called “a great interviewer” by Dan Rather. He’s doing okay. But as he explains in an article for The Awl, the life is not all wine and roses:

Freelancing is basically just courtship, but the freelancer-editor relationship is nothing more than friends with benefits.

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