This may seem to come out of left field, however, I would suggest that you check out guru.com. Guru is site for free lancers and I see projects all the time for articles. It would be meet the clients needs more than your creativity you would be selling. By that I mean you would have the ability to write the article, but you would need to follow what the client wants and that can be anything from anything you have to very specific guidelines.

As to the guidas, I find the money and job frequency to more than meet my needs. The best thing is while it costs 5% of the project fee, the site is your friend and goes to bat for you if there ever is problem.

Hope this helps.

Kent Capener
Capener Consulting, LLC
http://www.capenerconsulting.com