Dear Merri,
Would help if you identified your location.  Best way to get started in
Freelance work is to initiate an article (i.e. research it and write it) that
you feel would be of interest to a certain publication and submit it to the
editor - keep it reasonably short and make it VERY good.  Even better if you
can submit visuals as well - gives your article more "space" in a publication
if you have striking photos or drawings.  Key is finding a topic that is
current and important to that particular publication. Sometimes it is easier
to get published, in the beginning, in local weekly newspapers - they are
always looking for articles of unusual interest, have small staffs and need
story ideas particularly historic or artistic as most local staffs have
limited experience.

Another way to get published is to offer to write some stories for a local
Museum's newsletter - these would need to be short and pithy.  Another way is
to publish yourself on the web...come up with a theme, make a web page, and
start writing articles again with visuals if you can...then send a letter
with your webpage address to the publications for whom you would like to
write.

Our organization, WWC, Is looking for an editor for a newsletter which would
involve writing articles of interest from the over 120 year history of the
Historic Hackensack Water Company site on Van Buskirk Island in Oradell, NJ.
But you would have to be in the area, and the pay is VERY minimal at this
point.  It is not art history...but history of fascinating scope.

Hard to give you more specific advise, as your background, training, location
etc. all matter, and I don't have that info.

Good luck.

Maggie Harrer
President of the Board of Directors
The Water Works Conservancy, Inc.
Box 714
Oradell, NJ 07649
Phone: 201-967-0133
Fax: 201-967-7517
Website: Http://www.hwwc.org

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