I consider myself lucky to have found my true passion: storytelling.

It’s easier to explain to people that I’m a writer. It’s not untrue, but if I was invited to split hairs, I’d prefer to say that I’m a professional storyteller.

The term storytelling feels more complete. When crafting stories (fiction or non-fiction), there’s so much more than simply putting words on the page, such as:

• Psychology of human communication. We all use stories to impart important information. I’d argue that you interpret your entire identity through a form of storytelling (internal narratives).
• Information transfer theories. What elements of communication are best used to get a piece of information from one human brain to another? How effective are stories in this regard?
• Technology. Through the ages, the technology of stories has evolved and built on itself. It started with spoken or gestural language. Then written language. Then information storage (e.g. papyrus and ink), then information dissemination (books), mass info replication (printing press), digitization (computers)… this all intersects with psychology and culture in wonderful ways.
• Story structure. Beginning, middle and end are only, well, the beginning. Flow, pace, medium, visuals, and audio all come into play depending on what you’re doing.
• Story DNA. What makes a story tick? Characters? Plot? The piece I hang my hat on, considering these and all the elements above, is conflict and how you manage its components.

All this stuff applies to any piece of content, no matter how short, no matter what genre or subject.

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Anyway, if you need new words or to freshen existing ones, I can help. Social media copy, long-form blogs, all three levels of editing, non-fiction, fiction, you name it!

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At age six, I was scrawling wild tales about Kirby of video game fame. I had my (terrible) teenage poetry phase, I wrote short stories, and I spent an inordinate amount of time crafting lengthy replies on online forums.

I read a lot, and strove to emulate the skill of my favourite authors. In my late twenties I wrote my first novel. Two more followed over the years, and then I got into publishing.

Vocationally, my marketing career demanded more and more of words as web content ballooned onto the scene. I’m in love with worldbuilding and the structural aspects of building narratives, but am just as happy tinkering with writing the perfect tweet or ghostwriting a piece for a niche industry.