Dear freelance writers, please help me fight the good fight! Elephant Journal exploits writers.

As my grandfather used to say, you can hope in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first.

Dollars to donuts they told you whatever gets you off their radar quickly, and will continue business as usual.

Freelance life is the most cutthroat, market driven, and capitalistic of all the writing professions. It surprises me when people don't realize that. Words like right/wrong/could/if have no place in a pragmatic contract negotiation, and it sounds like you got screwed by EJ. Take your lumps and move on. Find better publishers. Or self-publish and blog. Your choice.

For instance, what's your hourly return on writing for EJ and then griping on reddit about it? Even after they agreed on some payment structure? Was it worth it? How much time have you spent vs. how much did you earn? That's the only way to financially evaluate your writing.

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