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Is there anybody around here who can help me with this one? |
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If I don't sound interested, it is probably because ... |
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03/25/2001 |
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If you want to write about interior design, there are tons of magazines out there. Can't you spec for those? Can you do an article for a web site? Can you do an article for ID schools about getting started in the biz? Can you focus on niche designers (there must be some)? -- something unusual, a different approach that a particular designer has. Actually, you don't sound very interested in doing it. Are you sure this is what you want to do? |
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believe me, there is a drastic difference between decorating a restaurant, and writing about the person who is decorating a restaurant. The process is not even similar, and the type of intelligence used is PROBABLY not similar (I'd have to check with some experts to verify that).
So yes, it's hard when you've discovered that you don't want to do X and you do want to do Y, to do X for the people who do Y. In this context, I think I would have to write about design for 5 years before anybody was willing to consider that sufficient industry exposure to give me a job opportunity. But it is also possible that I'm just being negative about that.
I do thank you for your ideas. I have had them myself and hearing someone else say it encourages me to think of that as a good idea. It's just that as Emily Dickenson once said, "I hate writing, but I love having written." The process stinks, although it's nice to be published. Even though a writer writes about a different topic every time, the process can be amazingly monotonous and very the-same-ol'-thing from article to article. At least, that's how it feels to me. Other writers would have different experiences of it.
I would think that being a low-paid assistant to a designer, the person who gets their coffee and mails out their swatches, would be a more direct, though more frustrating job track. What I'm wondering is whether or not anybody would hire me in that capacity without a related degree, even though I could do it in my sleep.
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