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Sam . Specialist Writer

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Specialties - Web Writing, Journalism, Publication, PR, Advertorial.

One late night in a London pub, a jaded journalist friend told me off for being too romantic about the written word. “You still believe it, all that stuff about being a ‘writer’. No-one believes that,” he tutted. Nearly ten years on, I still can’t disagree with him. Writing is the perfect discipline for geeks like me with a passion for grammar and an inquiring mind.

I’ve had an array of office-based jobs, some of them great, but freelance writing has opened doors I’d never have expected, whether that’s producing ad copy for some of Britain’s most widely read publications at the BBC, putting together my own editorial projects here and abroad (and actually making money from them), or eating corn-fungus quesadillas from Mexican street vendors in the name of research. (Or, more prosaically, chopping a story for a customer title from 250 words to 80, without the writer being able to spot the changes.)

I love research and interviewing people and finding out we’re all the same under different accents and social assumptions. Things like stupid puns, out-of-date phrases like ‘on tenterhooks’ and coming up with new ideas to engage an audience make me tick. I also admire the sort of clarity in written communication that makes a reader forget the medium and instinctively ‘get’ the message. That’s my goal, generally.

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