Article Writers....You here?

I began writing art criticism during a time when I was Director at a small non-profit art gallery in a small Canadian city. It is quite common that an artists exhibition will have critical and didactic text to accompany it. The intention is to further the understanding of the work displayed, the theoretic motivations, it's cultural and social impact and intent... but it is also provided with the hopes of publication, furthering the dissemination of the work itself. "Publish or Perish" as they say.

Anyways, providing these texts are supposed to be the curator's or the artist's responsibility, and they tend to find some other academic, artist, or critic to write it. My gallery specialized in showing work by non-artists, children, but we also held our door open for students from the local university's Masters program. Needless to say the first two groups would not provide any texts, the Master's students didn't either... but that's just because they were not very good at what they were doing. So the job fell to me. I would produce a short essay for each show, and since I really do not enjoy academic art writing I took it upon myself to prepare short descriptive writings in the form of articles.

I got very positive feedback and continued to write critiques and reviews and miscellaneous articles. Occasionally I sell one, but rarely. I did have a restaurant review column in a local free weekly newspaper for a year or so, but that was unpaid. I just did it for fun.

I do look for paid work writing articles but I am afraid my style is too unconventional for most publishers. I am working on a novel at present. You have to put your energies where your strengths lay.
 
I am part of our school publication as a feature editor. All I know is that it is really a good training ground for the young people in order to improve themselves. It can improve your comprehension skills, grammar, literacy and English. It can make you understand problems much more and analyze things better. Also,you can develop your self-confidence through writing and you can have the freedom to freely express your thoughts and opinions in a form of art.
 
I have been writing for a couple of magazines but would hasten to say that nowadays too many wannabes have jumped into the writing bandwagon making it not only a crowded place but also less glamorous and respectable than it was a few years ago. But I am sure its just a phase that should pass away.
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missbookworm said:
I am currently working as a freelance writer. I mostly do web-content, but I am also very much interested in writing my own novel, probably in the future. I have also tried running a blog about book reviews, but it's really difficult to earn a profit solely through ads, so right now, I just stick to article websites, and content mills.
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Do you write for content mills or have specific clients you write for?
 
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