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Top Skills: PROOFREADING & EDITING COPY EDITING & COPYWRITING SCREENPLAY FEEDBACK, WRITING, & SCRIPT POLISHING Please note: My posted hourly rate is a general baseline. Proofreading, editing, and copy editing projects typically begin at $25/hour, while most copywriting, screenplay writing, script feedback, and consulting begin at $32/hour, depending on scope and complexity. I enjoy helping clients make their writing clear, polished, engaging, and ready for its audience. Whether you are publishing, submitting, promoting, pitching, or posting, I can strengthen your work while preserving your voice. I provide proofreading, editing, copywriting, and copy analysis/editing for many types of writing, including books, manuscripts, blog posts, website copy, marketing content, articles, essays, academic writing, YouTube scripts, and screenplays. I work with authors, bloggers, students, content creators, businesses, and screenwriters who want writing that flows well, reads professionally, and communicates effectively. I also specialize in screenplay feedback and script polishing. As an award-winning screenwriter, I help writers improve dialogue, scene work, story flow, clarity, structure, and overall presentation. Whether you need a clean proofread, stronger copy, a sharper draft, or thoughtful notes on what is and is not working in a script, I bring both technical precision and story instinct to the process. I'm grateful that my screenwriting work has earned recognition from competitions and festivals including the Underground Indie Film Festival, Burbank International Film Festival, Big Apple Film Festival, HollyShorts, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, Hollywood Horrorfest, and the Fade In Awards. My scripts have also received multiple “Recommend” and “Consider” ratings with scores of 80%+ from industry professionals, including James Leighton (ABC/Disney), Jamie R. Thompson (Lighthouse Pictures), Andrzej Bartkowiak (Romeo Must Die, DOOM), Jason Mirch (Destructo Films), Emma Puglia (Zero Gravity), Robbie Combs (Captivate Entertainment), and WeScreenplay Pro readers. I am a cum laude graduate in humanities and literature, hold a Juris Doctor, and spent four years as an English tutor helping students strengthen grammar, clarity, and essay writing. I am also the author of two novels in The Teddy Bear Chronicles crime thriller series. Services I offer: ✏️ Proofreading and editing for books, manuscripts, articles, essays, short stories, and academic writing 📝 Copywriting and copy editing for blogs, websites, marketing materials, and digital content 🔍 Copy analysis for clarity, tone, structure, and flow (including revisions) 🎬 Screenplay writing, proofreading, editing, and polishing 🎥 Content review for feature scripts, TV scripts, and shorts--feedback notes 📄 Pitch decks, treatments, and series bibles 🖥️ Delivery with or without tracked changes Tools: Google Docs, Word, Final Draft, Fade In, Stripo, Buffer, and more! If you need a careful editor, a strong proofreader, polished copy, or honest, constructive feedback that helps your writing reach a higher level, I would love to help. Let’s make your work as strong and polished as it can be. ✨ 👏About Donnalyn's scriptwriting... "No overall issues with the formatting... The margins, justifying, and all standard screenplay formatting are HANDLED EXPERTLY." -Jeremy Hentschel (professional and creative voice with over seven years of entertainment industry experience. Jeremy is currently an independent development consultant.)

JD Vines is a multi-talented, award-winning, published writer, working as a full-time freelance book, screenplay and content writer. He writes under his own name, pen name, and as a ghostwriter. JD has written over thirty books and a dozen award-winning screenplays. His books are primarily non-fiction narratives in the biographic and health genres. He also writes novels. His screenplays include sitcoms, period dramas and features based on real people and real events. His published titles include: "The Darkness within Prison Walls" "The Afghanistan Tragedy" "Intermittent Fasting for Life" "Anxiety and the Whole Person" "Shabd Yoga and Sant Mat" "Governor John Stelle - Father of the GI Bill" "Bibb and the Candyman" "Boat People Love Story" "Melrose Bleak" "Enlightened Seasonal Juicing Recipe Book" "The Ancient Origins of Shiv Yoga" "Tales From the Trails - Hike to a Better World" "The African American Inventors Hall of Fame" "In Love and War" Content-wise, he has established himself as an authority in the areas of dietary supplements, nutrition, and natural health. As a life-long religious scholar, he also writes on world religion, psychology and philosophy. He is especially knowledgeable in the following areas: --Natural Health and Dietary Food Supplements --World Religion, Psychology and Philosophy --Meditation and Yoga --Massage, Bodywork, and Natural Healing --Market Research and General Research --Real Estate and Entrepreneurship

I'm a highly communicative, detail-oriented writer, proofreader, and editor with 6+ years of experience creating and revising professional content for publication online. I'm also a classically trained screenwriter and director with a collaborative spirit and a sharp eye for story. If you're trying to draw in readers, enhance your story, or present your ideas with clarity and effect, I'm here to help you nail it! • I've written and edited over 15 feature-length and pilot scripts for clients, and provided coverage for more. Including my own scripts, the number passes 30. • I've proofread and edited three fiction books, 20+ historical and life science blog posts, 50+ ASTM eLearning courses, 100+ AI generated video descriptions, 200 character backstories, and more. • I'll work hard to ensure your writing perfectly represents the most important thing: you! • Collaboration and communication are paramount—we'll always be on the same page.

I'm an award-winning screenwriter/filmmaker, published author, ghostwriter, and former print journalist (so I'm able to write effective press releases). Affiliate writer at Horror Writers Association. I'm particularly interested in writing screenplays, true crime research and writing, ghostwriting, and creating book trailers for authors.

Where Creativity and Digital Marketing Meet I’m a digital marketer and graphic designer focusing on user-generated content. I’m skilled at generating ideas and turning them into photography and written content that engages a brand’s audience. Through careful arrangement of your product in a variety of settings (lifestyle photography), I can increase your brand's credibility. By evaluating your product and providing feedback on its strengths and weaknesses, I can increase your chances of converting customers (content writing). You can count on me to make your product shine through my user-generated content. Message me to see how I can make your brand and products stand out!

Award winning screenwriter. My greatest success was the movie "We Need to Talk About Kevin" which opened the Cannes Film Festival, and for which I won the British Screenwriters Guild Award for Best Screenplay. I also supervised music for the film, finding all the tracks that were used as well as securing the involvement of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood. I was also the music supervisor and exec producer for the BAFTA winning short film "The Swimmer." I continue to write original screenplays for TV and film.