https://blog.workkitly.com/ Notes on the work behind the work: short essays on getting paid, pricing, writing and running a solo business — plus notes when WorkKitly ships something new. en Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.workkitly.com/posts/why-your-rate-is-not-your-wage.html https://blog.workkitly.com/posts/why-your-rate-is-not-your-wage.html Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Pricing & Rates A salary and an hourly rate look like cousins; they are not even the same species. One arrives with its costs paid by someone else — the other has to carry tax, admin, holidays, gaps and costs itself. https://blog.workkitly.com/posts/the-brief-you-wish-you-had.html https://blog.workkitly.com/posts/the-brief-you-wish-you-had.html Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Clients A fixed price quoted against a two-line brief is a price for a guess. An essay on how vagueness gets billed to whoever quoted first — and the habit that prevents it: the words before the numbers. https://blog.workkitly.com/posts/workkitly-write-is-live.html https://blog.workkitly.com/posts/workkitly-write-is-live.html Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 WorkKitly Notes Today WorkKitly gets a second kit. Write is ten small tools for planning, drafting and polishing a blog post — and every one of them runs in your browser, because an unpublished draft is nobody else's business. What was built, why it uploads nothing, and why the tools say plainly that they are not AI. https://blog.workkitly.com/posts/fix-a-post-before-it-exists.html https://blog.workkitly.com/posts/fix-a-post-before-it-exists.html Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Writing A title takes seconds to change before a post exists and an afternoon afterwards. An essay on the order of work: title, then outline, then intro — and why that order is the cheapest quality control there is. https://blog.workkitly.com/posts/the-admin-hour-is-real-work.html https://blog.workkitly.com/posts/the-admin-hour-is-real-work.html Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Getting Paid Quoting, invoicing and chasing payment are real work that rarely gets billed. This essay does the arithmetic on a clearly labelled example — and shows where the tools that shrink those hours live.