From the Science Writers' Handbook website comes a story about a writer who finished her story — and then got an unacceptable contract: "I'd heard of this practice," Robin Mejia writes. "But it had never happened to me before, and I'm embarrassed to admit I was surprised. I want to say that I assumed our initial email exchange was my contract … but the truth is that in my excitement to start the story, I didn't really think about it at all."
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