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  • $35 hourly

    • 5.0/5
    • (15 jobs)
    I am an experienced ghostwriter passionate about bringing stories to life and ensuring they resonate with the reader or listener. I have worked on various projects throughout my career, including fiction and non-fiction pieces, podcast episodes, social media content, news articles, and blog posts. Additionally, I have seven years of experience in marketing, including brand positioning, consumer insights, and developing high-performing marketing strategies. When I'm not writing, I am working on my true crime podcast, where I dive into unsolved cases from a historical and sociological perspective. My priority is delivering high-quality work that meets my client's needs and ensuring I maintain strong communication throughout the process.
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    Creative Writing
    Blog Writing
    Legal Research
    Content Writing
    Search Engine Optimization
    Scriptwriting
    Brand Management
    Copyright
    Telemarketing Scriptwriting
    Ghostwriting
    Editing & Proofreading
  • $20 hourly

    • 5.0/5
    • (10 jobs)
    Hello! I'm Tyler! I am very fond of words. They're funny things. They can be dull if they aren't handled properly, even capricious. They can twist away from your intentions like a willful child. It's a great joy to see the living potential of someone else's ideas and wrangle all of those words into a vessel for their passion. I can only hope you'll allow me the happy opportunity to uncover all of the life inside your work. My previous experience ranges from print journalism, to indie comics, to freelance RPG writing in the OSR style. My personal tastes tend towards the uncanny, the bizarre, and the grim; but I thrive on variety and I love a challenge. I've worked on comedy sketches, artist reviews, and fan-fiction as needed, so I can fill any niche that you need.
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    Copywriting
    Developmental Editing
    Worldbuilding
    Storytelling
    Content Writing
    Creative Writing
    Scriptwriting
    Page Layout Design
    Digital Publishing Suite
    Role-Playing Game Writing
    Article Writing
    Ghostwriting
  • $30 hourly

    • 5.0/5
    • (72 jobs)
    Every artist’s journey, like every story, has an origin. There is a beginning, middle, and end. Though the conclusion of my journey has not been decided, I can fill you in on the origins. Hopefully, that will give you an insight into me as a creator. The first book I ever read was Stephen King’s “It.” For years, I’d see its spine, sitting among my father’s library, sharing me with the seemingly innocent lone red balloon below chilling typography. When I finally got the nerve to pluck it out and start reading, the story contained within sparked something in me. That ignited my love for writing. For me, writing started with simple little stories featuring my friends, meant to make them laugh. That evolved into longer tales, with make-believe characters embroiled in fantastical tales of fantasy, horror, love, and even the mundane banality of everyday life. A love for film bled into each sentence, each paragraph creating the building blocks of a wholly unique style that prioritized pacing and excitement over showing off an expansive vocabulary. When I was fifteen, everything in my life came to a screeching halt. I was diagnosed with a serious chronic illness that stole not only a decade and a half of however long I will end up having on this Earth but also stole my love for storytelling. Those long years of frequent hospital visits and isolation created a unique perspective on life which came into play once my health issues were finally resolved. Once my health improved, I found myself behind all my peers, hamstrung when the race of life began. I rediscovered a love for writing. It didn’t only include storytelling. I became a freelance ghostwriter. I work fast without sacrificing creativity or quality. My writing style is wholly unique as I’ve taken great lengths to find and stick with my voice instead of copying or being inspired by others. And I have versatility and an ability to learn new styles that make me invaluable in any potential client’s project. I sincerely hope I will get the opportunity to prove this to you. Thank you for your time and interest.
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    Story Editing
    Screenwriting
    Article Writing
    Research Papers
    Comics
    Ebook Writing
    Creative Writing
  • $35 hourly

    • 5.0/5
    • (83 jobs)
    Storytelling has been a passion of mine since I was a child and I've spent the past six years turning that passion into a career. I graduated from Arcadia University in 2018 where I studied communications, creative writing, and cinema. I've participated in several workshops in and out of school to help sharpen my skills as a writer. As a ghostwriter, collaboration is important to me. I am always available to talk and discuss new ideas with clients. It is my job to take your ideas and turn them into fully fledged stories. I'm detail oriented, focused, and organized so you can trust that I am on top of all the projects I'm working on. As a developmental editor, my experience with narrative storytelling will help you refine your manuscripts. I will read your manuscript and leave comments in the document highlighting specific suggestions. You will also receive a detailed editorial report. When I'm not working on projects for clients, I'm working on my own fantasy novel that I'm hoping to publish within the next year!
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    Blog Writing
    Beta Reading
    Screenwriting
    Quiz Writing
    Adobe After Effects
    Writing
    Report Writing
    Article Writing
    Fiction Writing
    Romance
    Ebook Writing
    Fantasy
    English
    Creative Writing
  • $30 hourly

    • 0.0/5
    • (0 jobs)
    I graduated in Spring 2024 from Johns Hopkins University with a BS in Neuroscience and a BA in Psychology. Currently, I am a first-year doctoral student at Temple University in the Temple Infant and Child Lab, where my research interests are playful learning, storytelling, and parent child interactions. In my free time, I am an avid fiction reader, and can combine my avid reading skills with my academic background to provide mechanical and creative support to fiction writers across genres.
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    Story Editing
    Story Concept
    Story Development
    Story Writing
    Fiction Films
    Fiction
    Proofreading
  • $25 hourly

    • 4.9/5
    • (5 jobs)
    I love reading and writing about life and the underbelly of society. I have a B.A. in English Literature with a concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Pennsylvania. I focused my studies towards crime/genre fiction but found myself alone. No one at my university, nor any other university, as far as I can tell, taught or studied the Crime fiction genre, so I spent many hours locked in the university library studying the difference between high lit and genre fiction. Over the course of four years, I began to notice a pattern in genre fiction, in particular, bestselling fiction and developed a template of my own. With good writing, a crazy imagination and my template I can kick out high-quality genre fiction, which includes- Romance, Thrillers, Crime, and Mystery. I also work at the District Attorney's Office of a large metropolis and have access to an endless supply of characters, names, stories, and plot. (Most of what I witness daily I cannot make up) I am confident, that my template, writing skills, and imagination can assist in any project.
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    Content Creation
    Ghostwriting
    Fiction Writing
    Blog Writing
    Content Writing
    Creative Writing
  • $15 hourly

    • 0.0/5
    • (0 jobs)
    (They/She) Hello, reader! My name is Jodie Taylor, and I am a non-binary freelance writer and editor currently making my way through the freelancing world while publishing a few works of my own. As a graduate with a focus on the writing concentration of English, my 13 years of experience comes primarily from story writing. At age 16, I wrote and self-published my first novel, The Secrets of the Sapphires, and have been writing short stories ever since. I served as the editor and foreword author of a colleague's collection of prose and poetry, titled "What I Wrote About You", published through 7th Level. I believe in and am inspired by the power of the printed word, especially its ability to create. Emotion, fantasy, and ideas are some of the many gifts at the fingertips of any reader, and I take great pleasure in making sure that any given text is concise, fluid, accurate, and gripping. I look forward to working with you!
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    Blog Writing
    Copy Editing
    Fiction Writing
    Ghostwriting
    Creative Writing
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