Freelance horror stories

You don't need to read the Clients From Hell blog to realise that difficult clients can be one of the real downsides of freelancing, from offering payment in Maltesers and demanding you use Comic Sans to ignoring invoices or suddenly deciding they don't actually feel like finishing the project after all.

Luckily, there are ways to weed out nightmare clients and make these scenarios much less likely, as these three creatives (who've remained anonymous to protect all those involved) only wish they'd known sooner. They've talked us through their worst-ever freelance jobs so you can benefit from the lessons they had to learn through bitter experience.

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