Why Is A Turnip Like A Free-Lance Writer?
February, 1976
Why is a Turnip Like a Free-Lance Writer?I went broke in the traditional way: I spent all my money. It's an old story and it would have been all right except that before the smell of death reached the credit-card people, I spent a bagful of their money, too--a handful here, a fistful there--and by the time their computers sensed what was going on, we were all in over our heads.For a long time, I didn't even know how much trouble I was in, because I don't pay attention to my accounts the way I sh...