Filmmaker recruits scriptwriter and only pays him 30% of his fee, faces payback when he gets a new job: 'I realized I had been taken for a ride'

Anyone who works for themselves will tell you that there can be significant downsides to this arrangement. The freelance world can be cutthroat, and there is no shortage of people who want the services of freelancers but do not necessarily want to deal with the price tag attached. Even the savviest of individuals can get scammed or left holding invoices that remain mysteriously unpaid despite giving their all when it comes to the work. Not only is it a great disappointment, it can also make or break their finances.

It is especially disheartening for a self-employed person to experience this behavior from somebody they consider a peer. It is easy to think that this will make them more amenable to work with, but sometimes that couldn't be further from the truth. Sadly, professionalism can be something that is in short supply, and the creative industries are notoriously bad with this.

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This is something that one content writer had the misfortune of dealing with after he agreed to help a former colleague write a script for a corporate film that he was making. Despite making him do endless revisions, he eventually ghosted the writer and only paid him a small proportion of his promised fee when he was chased down.
Unsurprisingly, this led to him wanting revenge which he pulled off seamlessly a couple of months later. All he needed was the help of some specific social media tools.
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