Over 20 years or writing, teaching, proofreading, and editing experience: creative, imaginative writing; proofreading; nonfiction and fiction; advertising/SEO copy; content copy.
If you have a job for me, I can probably do it, if given an example of what you expect. Writing is thinking and conceptualizing. All writing flows from a concept.
For more than twenty years I have worked as an English teacher, focusing, mainly, on academic and expository writing. But I have written nonfiction articles, short stories, and a blog for the U.S. State Department's EFL program. I was a fellow in this program. I was an advisor to Africa University, tasked with setting up a writing resource center.
I am American, but I have spent most of my life overseas. I graduated from a high school in German and taught in Japan, China, and then Zimbabwe, so I have a variety of experiences to draw from. I have traveled extensively in East and Southeast Asia. I speak, read, and write Japanese. While in Japan, I was the correspondent for the now defunct online magazine flakmag.com, which posted a number of my articles. Recently, I have published nonfiction pieces and had an essay listed as a finalist in the "Missouri Review's" Jeffrey E. Smith editor's prize for 2020. There were over 600 entries.
Before becoming an English teacher, I took a copywriting course at the School of Visual Arts in New York, so I can write a variety of styles, a variety of genres, from fiction to advertising to journalism to academic papers to educational materials to technical writing. (I have proofread technical manuals for Sony and NEC.)
I am a golfer. I considered turning profession long, long ago. When in the U.S. I flyfish. I used to fish for trout in the Rockies, but now I'm more interested in stalking redfish on the Florida flats. In Japan I cycled a lot in the area known as Tohoku. When I was in Zimbabwe I had the pleasure of traveling around by motorcycle in the Eastern Highlands. I'm not a pilot, nor have a served in the military, but I a family of military pilots.
Challenge me with your job. I believe I can rise to the challenge.
Work Terms
I am free and can take on a project with a short turnaround time. I would like to have an understanding, before taking on a project of exactly what is expected of me, because writing can be rather subjecting, and what I think the person wants may not be, well, what the person wants. So communication is essential. This is not art, this writing for hire. It is writing for hire, meant to meet the needs of the customer.
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