Writers In Thailand

[Cassiopeia]

Hi all!

I'm looking for some input from the expats on this forum.

After traveling through Thailand, I'm seriously in love with it and would love to spend a couple years living and working in Bangkok. I'm an American woman in my 20s.

Currently I'm an English teacher in Korea; I work at a public school and have a TEFL, and would have 1-2 years of teaching experience depending on when I relocated to Bangkok. So teaching is obviously my best bet in working here.

However, while I enjoy teaching, I really want to work in some kind of writing-related field---anything from marketing, PR, content writing or editing, journalism, magazines, etc. I'd work for a Thai or Western company, school, NGO, whatever. I have an undergraduate degree in Journalism/Publishing and some volunteer and intern experience, but nothing paid in that field. Besides teaching I have some paid nonprofit development experience as well.

I am wondering if any of you work as writers of any sort in Bangkok, or know people who do, or have ideas on how to potentially break into that market here. I don't speak Thai (though I would learn if I moved here). Also, I'm not looking for a high salary, I'd be happy with the equivalent of whatever a TEFL teacher makes in Bangkok--basically enough to cover rent, live off street pad thai and not have to dip into savings to do so. I'm paying off the uni loans in Korea right now and don't expect to get rich in Thailand, but would like to live comfortably. I'm not a big drinker/partyer, so I wouldn't have major entertainment expenses beyond the basics. I'd probably take a class in Thai from a university to meet people and I love Thai cooking, temples, cultural things as well as cheap entertainment like free outdoor concerts and such.

I do know one person who works as an English website content writer in Thailand and she only spoke English when she came here, so it's possible, but she lives near Phuket, not Bangkok, and I'd love to hear from the wide range of people on this forum.

I'm new to the forum and so just posting this in the General section, but if it belongs somewhere else it can be moved.

Thanks!

Cassiopeia.

[inthepink]

It doesn't really matter where you live when writing content for websites as most of the work is done on a freelance basis.

[Moonrakers]

I make a living freelance writing myself: SEO/Web content/ Sales copy/Travel Articles/Blogs.

Have a look around at the freelancing sites that are available. Expect to start on low earnings because there is a lot of competition from people who are willing to work for peanuts in India/Pakistan/Philippines etc. Once you begin to build up a profile and new learn skills you can demand more, I'm hoping to break through the $20/hr mark sometime this year. More experienced writers earn much more than that.