Why Hire Me?

WHY HIRE A WRITER?

Writing is the 2nd most common form of communication. It is also the most easily misunderstood. All too often, there are big differences between what you wrote and what you thought you wrote. But often, written communication is someone’s first impression of you. People judge you based on first impressions. It’s not fair, but that’s all they have to go by. The general excuse you might use is that it’s hard to convey tone in writing or get all your thoughts on the paper without the other party's responses letting you know what informtion they're missing. But a professional writer deals with that challenge all the time.

Also, to a lot of people, the thought of writing anything can be scary. If what you write is too long, no one will read it. If it’s too short, you won’t be able to say everything you want to say. If it’s too boring, people won’t want to read it. But making it interesting makes it longer, and then people won’t want to read it because it’s longer. Professional writers, who write for a living, have figured out how to say more in fewer words.

WHY HIRE ME?

As you can tell from my columns and comic strips, my specialty is humor writing. But that doesn’t mean that all I write is humor.

True, I can incorporate humor into anything I write and have it still be a professional piece that accomplishes what you want it to while holding the readers’ interest. But even if you don’t want to use humor, my skills and the habits I’ve picked up as a humor columnist still greatly benefit whatever I’m writing for you:

I write my sentences so that readers understand them the first time through. If someone has to reread a sentence in a humor column, then even if he eventually gets the joke, he won’t laugh.

I can write in a way that elicits a specific emotion from the reader. Usually it’s laughter. It doesn’t have to be.

In order to write a joke that is effective, I have to be surprising, and not have the reader see the end of the sentence coming until he gets to it. This keeps the reader guessing, instead of bored and moving on to something else before he finishes the piece.

I am used to working under extreme creative pressures with numerous rules as to what I can and can’t do. My humor columns have to be kosher and family friendly, I can’t touch certain topics but sometimes have to hit upon others, and I still have to get my basic message across. Your project, no doubt, has its own parameters. They don’t scare me.

Need something written, edited or proofread? Contact me today.

Unless the deadline’s today. I’m not a miracle worker.