I finished the draft of my novella a couple of weeks ago, and how much have I written since then? Nothing! I got so burnt out after writing that whole thing as quickly as I did. Working on 5 books at  once is hard work.

I did, however, make a logo for someone. Someone who, unfortunately, told me to redo it, because it was too “girly”. Even though I followed their instructions to a T. They had sent me samples of what colors to use, and the colors I chose were based on that, and yet it was too girly for them. Then, they sent me a quick sketch of what they wanted, with even more specific instructions…that were the same as what I had already done! And the sketch they drew as an example of what they wanted was also the same as what I had already done. They went through this whole thing about “the lion’s face should look more like this,” when that was exactly what I had already done. But I changed it up according to some of the stuff they said that I hadn’t done already, and sent it back.

If you’re familiar with Fiverr, you know that the default price for a service (like a logo) is $5. But the person can tip you, and the default tip that it goes to is $5, and then there’s a choice of $10 or just typing in your own amount.

The previous logo I had made on there made an extra $5 as a tip. Because that’s only right, right? If someone you hired on that site is actually making you something that takes a lot of effort, such as a logo, it is only right to tip them. The default option is even $5, not $0.

This person didn’t tip me. That means they looked at the default $5 tip option and went “nah, this logo isn’t really worth that much” and clicked “other amount” and put in 0. Not only did they not give me a tip for redoing the logo that I had already put a lot of effort into, but they actually docked me $1 to boot.

If you’re just hiring someone to post about your music on their blog or something else that doesn’t take that long, there’s no reason to tip them unless you just feel like it. But a logo pretty much warrants a tip, considering the fact that logos usually cost a lot more and take a long time to do.

I was going to post the awesome logo here, but I have no desire to give the person bad publicity.