[kjdavis]

Yesterday I accepted my first freelance job with getafreelancer.com. Essentially I had to write a small description with my proposal. Easy enough. I wrote it, sent it in, and received an email within hours with explicit instructions on what to write.

The client asked me to write ten 300 word articles on various replica Rolexes. This is a subject I am not familiar with at all, so it required tons of research. She gave me zero guidelines other than to use 'good grammar'.

I am about four articles and 10 hours into the project and feel all this work is not worth the ten dollars I am getting paid.

Initially I told her I would have them completed by tomorrow morning. Honestly, I am all out of ideas and can't conjure up anything else original to write.

Do you feel that some clients put far too many demands on writers? If so, how do you avoid this trap?

Thanks!