While I was on my hustling game here on DP, using my skills to pay the bills, I came to realize how much I used to love writing about dating and relationships. I have maintained a column in a national publication here in the United States for 8 years now, where I often write about dating and relationships. I would like a gig where I can write about those topics again and I am looking for a publisher that would like prime content. I can write about dating experiences in general, or I can specialize in inter-racial dating, or dating specific to Indians. I can write very amusing and entertaining pieces about Internet dating, and if you want a super-special niche, I can help develop content in regards to inter-racial marriages among Indians (This is a hot niche! Did you know that a recent survey done by a national magazine in the US found that 1 in 4 Indian marriages are inter-racial?). Here is an example of my writing: As a South Asian, there is a term that we often use to refer to those who have recently arrived from India. It is a derogatory term, FOB, and it means "Fresh Off the Boat." I know, it's awful. And I am guilty. These words have came out of my mouth many times while with my Indian friends at a bar when an Indian guy comes at us looking so new, with with a heavy accent trying way too hard to strike up a conversation with one of us, because rumor has it that American girls put out. I admit it. I am arrogant and rude to call my own people such a derogatory term. It is hard enough for those of us who were born here to go through school in America. In high school, we have to fit in with just the right groups to avoid being called racial slurs. It all leads many of us to banish our culture in order to fit in. I remember a girl in high school named Geeta who came to the United States when I was in ninth grade. My teacher decided that it would be a good idea for us to sit next to each other so that Geeta had someone she could relate to. I was so embarrassed. I, myself in an all-white high-school, had to really try to be as "American" as possible in order to fit in. The truth of the matter was that Geeta and I had nothing in common since I could not speak Hindi, and she could not speak English. And to make matters worse, with me trying to help Geeta, now I was subject to the racial name-calling that was initially only directed at her. Although it was not the most moral thing to do, I distanced myself from her to avoid the name-calling. I spoke to her only when no one was around to witness my shallow gesture. After creating enough distance, it worked. My peers finally acknowledged my "American-ness" and stopped calling me a "dothead". Now years later, as an adult, I ran into one of the guys from my high school who made my life so miserable by calling me names in the hallway, such as "sand-nigger" and "camel-jockey". Now, he was calling me beautiful and he wanted to take me out to dinner. I was floored! This was the same guy who literally yelled from 300 feet away down the long hallway: "Sand Nigger!" And now, granted it's years later, he wants me to go out with him on, like, a date? I asked him, "do you remember calling me names in school?" He had that dumb look that guys always get when they are totally busted. And he did that dumb thing that all guys do when they are confronted and he totally denied it. I couldn't believe it. He tried to tell me that I was possibly confused with someone else. No, we went to school together for 8 years and you traumatized me the whole time, I freaking remember who you are. I left after telling him that if he ever raises his own children, I hope he will teach them to have a little more respect for people from different cultures. The dork insisted I take his number, you know, just in case. So I am sitting here complaining about this guy trying to take me out, but I am such a hypocrite. Sure I have respect for people from different cultures, but those who share my culture, I refer to as FOBs? How awful! Coming from a culture so different from America and facing the challenge of blending into a completely different culture is one that I found next to impossible, and I was born here. I can not even comprehend just being dropped into it. I recently made a conscious decision to banish "FOB" from my vocabulary and express more compassion towards people who are faced with these challenges. It may mean that I actually talk to the Indian guy wearing a 70's butterfly collar shirt with sunglasses at a bar, drunker than a skunk feeding pick up lines that he read somewhere, but hey, it's a small baby-step away from all the things we do to hurt our own people. The hotties with the bodies are nice and all, but maybe there is more to people than that. I have a very conversational style of writing that is often categorized as "ranting", and my writing often produces responses. Check out this thread that I responded to recently where I quoted some of my hate mail and my responses to my beloved readers: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=10216468&postcount=16 I would love to find someone who wants to form a long-term partnership (not that kind of partnership, my husband would seriously freak). For a classy site, I would let you use a hot picture of me (I mean for a classy dating site, not for a classy-other-kind-of-site), and I would also be willing to work with you to produce video content and other creative, interactive content, and maybe even work on a book deal down the line, you know, if you got the SEO and marketing skills to take a site that far. I have the personality and the talent, just not the time and gumption (and money ...) to *do it all* ... an artist's lifestyle is always such a struggle for balance ... For straight content in this niche, like say you just want a handful of articles, and you don't want my name or my hot picture so that all your readers know who the authority is that is publishing the piece, I would want .045/word. I put a lot of blood, sweat and sometimes tears into this style of writing, so that is why this niche is a little higher than my pieces on, say, "Why Chicago is So Great". If you want a little more from me, it will cost a little more, but I am so worth it. PM me and let's talk. And if you think I am way over-priced, I bet a hundred bucks that you are probably a male that has difficulty grasping quality over quantity. Ha ha ha, just kidding, PM me for great deals on travel and weight loss content.
I got several PMs asking for more samples of dating articles. Here is one more dating article that I wrote: