Amongst Native Americans, it is a sign of happiness, speed and purity In China, people associate the dragonfly with prosperity, harmony and as a good luck charm. To the Japanese, it symbolizes summer and autumn, admired and respected all over, so much so that the Samurai use it as a symbol of power, agility and best of all, victory. He looked up this website, which explains the significance and symbolism of the dragonfly: My lovely husband came home to find me in tears, an extremely rare occurrence in our 13 years together. The whole week felt like one long, exhausting argument with the world, over money, over revisions, over what to do next, over how to do it better - or whether I should even be doing it at all. The publisher for “Malled” has also passed on my new book proposal, which was disappointing. Many editors won’t fight for you, but simply drop you for someone who never fights back in order to protect their intellectual property. Publishers are increasingly greedy and their legal departments strong-armed. It is wearying, every day, year after year, to defend the value of your ideas, trying to win the highest possible market valuation for them. (Which means more such arguments probably lie ahead.) With little stomach for the email argument with my editor, (and their legal department) that followed, I requested a different contract, knowing that many publishers have them, but will only offer one if pushed to do so. The serious cash comes from better-paid media - re-use by television or film options or rights and/or books I earned $5,000 from CBS’ television option for a possible sitcom derived from “Malled”, my book about retail. There are a few ways to make good money in freelance journalism:ġ) earn $5,000+ per story on every story, (tough to do)Ģ) re-sell your material, in various iterations, to as many places for as much money as often as you can.ģ) crank out a ton of copy asfastasyoupossiblycan.Īn all-rights contract, in my view, is restraint of trade and a PITA way to limit my income. Given that most of my stories only earn between $1,000 and $2,000 apiece, that’s a lot of territory to claim for very little money. I opened the balcony door but he didn’t budge.Īfter feeling triumphant over winning a Big Women’s Magazine as a new client and getting nice feedback on my work, I received their all-rights contract, the now-normal land-grab that means they own everything in a story. He buzzed and banged against the window but couldn’t get out. The other day, a dragonfly got trapped in our small dining room, where I work on my laptop.
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