Payed for writing historic articles

upncmnhistori

Hi is there any newspaper/journal/magazine that pays one for writing historic articles in Ireland?

pedroeibar1

Many people write historic articles in Ireland. Some few succeed in obtaining payment; they are the ones that can spell and understand syntax.

gobnaitolunacy

Don't know...wrote a piece to give someone a hand at what I assumed to be a private project...imagine my surprise when it turned up, in print and almost word for word, in something called 'Ireland's Eye' (a poor man's Ireland's Own) with no credit given!

upncmnhistori

So you were plagerised. Hopefully my proof reader won't do that.

ejmaztec

upncmnhistori wrote: »

So you were plagerised. Hopefully my proof reader won't do that.

You should use a spell-checker before giving it to the proof reader, to save time and anguish.

upncmnhistori

ejmaztec wrote: »

You should use a spell-checker before giving it to the proof reader, to save time and anguish.

Have done but one can become 'blind' to their own writing. That is why it is good to get another person to read it before publication. What I find is I am not putting quotes in the right place and three times I have been told to 'dumb it down' because it depends on the audience I am writing for.

Casinoking

upncmnhistori wrote: »

Have done but one can become 'blind' to their own writing. That is why it is good to get another person to read it before publication. What I find is I am not putting quotes in the right place and three times I have been told to 'dumb it down' because it depends on the audience I am writing for.

Are THE SUN publishing a HISTORY supplement these days?

ZombieBride

I have been published in a few history magazines, no cash payment, only payment in kind of extra copies of the issues. I wrote a book freelance, that paid for itself but it was a great deal of work following up on bookshops. At the moment I have been commissioned to write another book, but that is on the back of my previously unpaid for work, and on the website that I run www.limerickslife.com

My thoughts are, you have to give to get in this world, and if you do find that elusive publisher who pays for articles then let us all know.

Judgement Day

http://limerickslife.com/

nuac

Local historical magazines always welcome well researched articles of local interest.

I doubt if they pay for them, but publication of such articles would help to establish yourself as an authority on a particular topic which may lead to some paid work.

upncmnhistori

Casinoking wrote: »

Are THE SUN publishing a HISTORY supplement these days?

Not going to take that quote seriously have to admit it does make me laugh though. There are different types of audiences 1. Community 2. Academics/specfic topics but because some things I have writing for, it has to be community based becasue many of the people who read my stuff are not in the aera of academics some won't understand. There are academic things I find to understand.

Zombie Bride thank you for your link I will have a read through.

upncmnhistori

nuac wrote: »

Local historical magazines always welcome well researched articles of local interest.

I doubt if they pay for them, but publication of such articles would help to establish yourself as an authority on a particular topic which may lead to some paid work.

I agree.