In a lot of ways, I actually feel lucky to be able to work all the time. If everything I do is work — all the movies I see, or books I read, or music I listen to, or even whatever thoughts I have — then nothing is work. I just get paid to consume/exist, and then write about it (which I like doing anyway).

Katie Mcdonough on what it means to be a freelance writer in today’s Freelancers are totally screwed: What today’s cultural treadmill means for writers