It's a bane of the struggling freelancers' life — markets that pay writers late, or not at all. On WordCount, Michelle V. Rafter offers tips for shaking your check free from the accounting department, and ways of dealing with the most recalcitrant ones: "You know the old saying, 'fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me,'" Rafter writes. "If you’ve been burned by a publication, you should have a very good reason for ever wanting to work for them again."
