Re: On to Styles

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Posted by fgrieser
2006-01-09 17:00:05

>Absolutely! Unfortunately, some clients can’t seem to actually “see” the words until they’re in a layout, so some editing at that stage ends up being inevitable. (If you’ve figured out a way to avoid this, I’d love to hear it!)

LOL

I know this only too well. I earn my living as freelance writer and translator.

What I do to (try to) avoid this: I format the text in Word or OpenOffice.org Writer to closely match the finished format and give it to my customers. For my normal fee, they usually get 2 revision cycles. In case, they have changes after revision 2, I charge extra.

This works most of the time (sometimes I do 3 revision cycles for a new customer when I want to keep him). But I admit: There have been times that I did more (smaller) revisions - grudgingly.

Franz

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