
Recovering when you've stuffed up, with freelancer John Burfitt
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I Stuffed Up. It's Not Always You That Stuffs Up
John says he's always rung editors to let them know if there has been a mistake. He almost had his travel writing career derailed on the first story he ever did for sunday supplements back 12 years ago. His sources were all wrong, and she was 'screaming' at him when she read through it. But because he could prove what he'd done, they commissioned him again two weeks later. And that's such a key thing: you don't want o rich to have the only time you've ever spoken to an editor to be the time.
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