Freelance Writer
For Hire
What do you need?
If you're like the clients I've worked with for 25 years, you need a freelance writer who knows how to listen and collaborate. You'd probably appreciate a few guarantees, as well.
How about these? They're the promises I've been making and keeping, first to bosses and later to my own clients for 30 years all told.
I'll meet your deadlines.
I’ve been writing to deadlines my entire adult life. It started with mountains of college research papers, progressed to newspaper deadlines, then to my own clients’ media and print deadlines. Deadline-centric writing is my destiny.
If I agree to your deadline, you’ll have your words on time.
I'll be willing to write about diverse subjects.
For over 25 years, I’ve written advertising materials (and occasionally functioned as a ghost writer) for clients who represent a diversity of small businesses. From dental offices to shoe repair shops, from injection molding manufacturers to financial consultants, from Realtors to dry cleaners, I’ve written and designed just about every kind of print material you can think of for just about every kind of business you can think of. Over 150 of them, at last count. Experience has made me a generalist, not a specialist.
If I think I can do the subject justice and agree to accept your project, you’ll receive a well-researched and well-written article/copy — regardless of the subject matter.
I'll write to your word count.
Almost all my writing projects have had strict space limitations because I've chosen small businesses as my target market. Small businesses can’t afford full-page ads; they say what they need to say in eighth-page ads. Headlines have to be short, short, short. Sell copy has to be informative and zippy-snippy-snappy.
An advertising postcard says what needs to be said — and stops. A four-page newsletter is a four-page newsletter (not a six-page one), and reverting to nine point type is not an acceptable way to tighten text. It has to be mercilessly edited to fit the space, period. Lopping off thoughtfully and carefully chosen words in the interest of brevity is a way of life.
Tell me your word count, and you’ll get it.
I'll edit to your specs.
I’m accustomed to clients’ revisions. In fact, it worries me when they have none. Figuring they know their market and industry far better than I ever will, I expect them to set me straight when I’m off the mark. For thirty years, I've laid my writing in front of bosses and – later – clients, listened to their advice, and rewrote copy to suit their suggestions. That repeated process has taught me that collaboration produces the best writing. It takes both of us to get the message just right.
You do your advising and I’ll do the revising until we're both satisfied.
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