Frelance Writer Wanted for East Asian Art Blog (Hong Kong)

25 March 2011
Frelance Writer Wanted for East Asian Art Blog (Hong Kong)
Requirements:

We are looking for a writer with strong English skills and an art history background or strong interest in East Asian Art who is competent and interested in doing projects with us.

Our company is in the process of building an online portal for Asian Brushpainting.
This portal is mainly focusing on Chinese and East-Asian art forms such as Sumi-e and Calligraphy.

It is aiming at providing artists with the opportunity to purchase relevant supplies for these art forms but also create interesting and relevant content for the portals and thus drive traffic.

The tasks would involve the following:

Define content structure for a blog/shop dedicated to Calligraphy.

Content could include such categories as:

# Basic Knowledge
# Historic Background
# Main calligraphy schools / styles
# Introducing the tools
# Basic Tutorial(s)
# Advanced Tutorial(s)

Write about 60 articles of 250-500 words per article

# 10-20 articles during the first 2 weeks
# 5-10 articles per week later

Articles to interact with visual content:

Consider in your articles where it would make sense to insert an illustration, picture or video on the text and think about a rough script for these; our photographers / illustrators and video-guys would then prepare these so we can embed that content in the written content

Skills:

>> Ability to structure tasks and texts
>> Excellent work ethic and reliable
>> Great communication skills to communicate with international team
>> Ability to quickly acquire know-how in a new field and translate these into well sounding texts

Starting Time: As soon as possible

Period: 1 month

Payment: USD 1,000

Apply here.
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