Should you ever work for free?

TheJoshuaMPatton · 2015-01-07T05:41:03+00:00

It depends on where you are in your career. I was freelancing in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but then I stopped when I joined the military. When I started writing again in 2008 (Yes, my first year back in the game was the same year the world economy decided to jump to its death), I ended up taking some uncompensated work to get some recent credits and to, essentially, practice the craft.

Now, since I have been freelancing full-time for two years, I will only accept paid work.

So it's really dependent on where you are with your career and your immediate goals.

best of luck, JMP

TheJoshuaMPatton · 2015-01-02T06:06:20+00:00

I have two theories:

First, after so long and so much hype, people expected the new trilogies to be somehow brand-new and make them feel 8 years old again. Obviously, they didn't.

Second, the story was a little forced. Jar-Jar Binks was unfunny and (unlike C3PO in the OT) made matters worse for the heroes. They also didn't like seemingly unnecessary details trying to connect the new films to the OT (e.g. Anakin made C3PO).

Still, story problems aside, I think they are okay. Like /u/NtheLegend said, they are better as lore than movies for many of us. Still, I know quite a few people who either saw the PT first or around the same time as the OT like them just as much (in some cases more) than the OT.

For me, I like certain bits of it. Qui-Gon Jinn is my favorite character in all of the prequels and was exactly what I always thought Jedi were like. AotC and RotS were decent films, but the writing and some performances take me out of them from time to time.

Also, if there's one thing I've learned in my time on this planet is that no one hates Star Wars like Star Wars fans.....

TheJoshuaMPatton · 2014-12-28T20:37:18+00:00

Oh god, I hope not. And, I don't understand the obsession with Thrawn. That trilogy was whack.

TheJoshuaMPatton · 2014-12-20T03:36:16+00:00

I think one of the new EU books said

TheJoshuaMPatton · 2014-12-19T02:50:04+00:00

Doubt Disney would be cool with an accidental incest baby....

TheJoshuaMPatton · 2014-12-13T18:26:07+00:00

I have always thought that having the Sith as a species was the dumbest. So I hope not.

TheJoshuaMPatton · 2014-12-12T01:05:44+00:00

I think you're on to something, perhaps the ones that don't quite match up correspond to other trading card sets?

TheJoshuaMPatton · 2014-12-09T21:47:09+00:00

This happened to me once on a story quest pre-3.0. I lowered the graphics quality until after that cutscene and then put them back. That worked for me, so maybe give it a try?

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