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Top Skills: PROOFREADING & EDITING SCREENPLAY WRITING, FEEDBACK & POLISHING COPY EDITING & COPYWRITING I help clients strengthen both written content and screenwriting projects with a blend of editorial precision, creative judgment, and audience-focused communication. Whether the goal is to publish, submit, promote, pitch, or develop a stronger story, I help make the work clearer, sharper, and more effective. For PROOFREADING/EDITING and copy projects, I focus on clarity, flow, tone, readability, and reader impact while preserving your voice. Whether the work needs a light polish, deeper revision, or stronger messaging, I help make the final piece cleaner, more professional, and more effective. As a multi-award-winning SCREENWRITER, I also bring strong story instincts to script and film-related projects. I can help with original screenplays, writing from client story ideas, script proofreading, script editing (dialogue, scene work, formatting, etc.), thoughtful feedback/notes, pitch decks, and more! See list of services below. My original feature screenplay NEVER AGAIN, a drama/thriller, is currently in development with BRITT ROBERTSON and JACK KILMER set to star, with PENELOPE ANN MILLER and JOSH HENDERSON in supporting roles. I'm grateful that my screenwriting work has earned recognition from competitions and festivals including the Burbank International Film Festival, Big Apple Film Festival, HollyShorts, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, and Hollywood Horrorfest. My scripts have also received multiple high ratings with scores of 80%+ from industry pros including ABC/Disney, Lighthouse Pictures, director of Romeo Must Die and Doom, Zero Gravity, Captivate Entertainment, WeScreenplay Pro, and Slated. 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 quirky 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, original or from client’s story idea, 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 Rate note: My posted hourly rate is a general baseline. Proofreading, editing, and copy-editing projects typically begin at $23/hour, while most copywriting, screenplay writing, script feedback, and consulting begin at $32/hour, depending on scope and complexity. Tools: Google Docs, Word, Final Draft, Fade In, Stripo, Buffer, and more! If you need strong writing, careful editing, polished copy, script support, or honest, constructive feedback that helps your work 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)

Chicago based Theater and Video Artist, Director, Writer, and Educator. I use my background in storytelling to lead the flow of my writing, paired with strong factual research to craft engaging and informative pieces. I'm an avid history lover, big reader, pet owner, and active person. I offer recent experience in writing blog posts for a wide variety of client niches, crafting scripts for promotional materials, and helping to adapt existing copy and writing into a more engaging and stimulating tone. My main focus is always on storytelling and bringing material to life that captures the attention of the audience right away.

My name is Morris, and I am a writer based in Chicago. I have created content and copy for numerous companies, primarily arts and nonprofit groups. Beyond freelancing, I am a playwright and poet. I am the recipient of a DeGroot Foundation Writer of Note Award, a Chelsey/Bumbalo Foundation Award, a Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events grant, a MAP Fund grant, and more. My plays have been produced in Chicago, London, NYC, and Lexington, KY. My words have been published by Adelaide, underscore_magazine, Boats Against the Current, Insider, Healthy Rich, Bottlecap Press, and more. If you need writing, editing, or script consulting, I am happy to help.

I am a creative writer from Chicago. I have written 13 books in the past eight years. I have participated in the Nicholls Fellowship for the past three years in a row. Google Wars was my most successful screenplay in the competition, though I have never won it. I have written four stage plays and four screenplays. I have also written and recorded over 24 songs and 16 instrumental albums. My hobbies include personal development and reading.

From 2007 to 2017 I was the owner of the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, which published 40 books for total distribution of over 20,000 copies. Along the way, CCLaP's books won or were finalists for a half-dozen awards, including the Pushcart Prize, the Lambda Award for LGBTQ literature, and the Independent Publisher Book Award; and the center itself was named one of the 10 best indie presses in the United States by both BookRiot and Poets & Writers magazine. Now I bring that same award-winning deep experience to your own self-published or small-press manuscript, helping you hone it with a fine knife into the best book it can possibly be. I currently offer three services as a freelancer, the first and main one being editing. I provide not only developmental editing (helping you identify “big picture” problems regarding the story, characters, dialogue, information logic, and more) but also copy editing (including a close-in technical pass for grammar, punctuation, spelling, and usage, also sometimes known as “line editing” or “content editing”) and post-production proofreading (where I review not only the text but also all the book parts, such as headers and footers, the title page and synopsis, etc.). I charge half a cent per word for proofreading, 1 cent per word for either developmental or copy editing, or a bundled discount of 1.5 cents per word for all three. Secondly, I offer graphic design of your book’s interior pages. If you have specific ideas beforehand of what you’d like included, I’m happy to incorporate those wishes; or otherwise we work in an iterative process, where I present you multiple options as far as layout style and typeface choices, and over several back-and-forth discussions we whittle things down to a design you love. For books of less than 500 pages/100,000 words with no tables, I charge a flat $300 for the entire process, plus provide EPUB and Kindle ebook versions for free; please drop me a line if you have a bigger or more complicated book. (My apologies, but I do not offer cover design as a freelance service.) And thirdly, I offer help as a story coach, which you can think of as a creative writing college course but with only one student, you. I meet up with you at whatever frequency works best, review the latest work, give you pointers on where to go next, help you brainstorm ideas, and serve as an accountability partner during mental blocks. You determine exactly what kind of help would work best for you, and the maximum amount of hours I should work per week, at a rate of $30 per hour. See my portfolio section at the bottom of the page for a broad selection of testimonials from authors I've worked with as a freelancer, and praise my books have garnered over the years from such publications as Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, the Chicago Tribune, HTMLGIANT, and more. Proud member of: American Copy Editors Society Romance Writers of America (fellow RWA members get a discount; write for more) Chicago-North Romance Writers ANTI-AI PLEDGE: I promise that all work I complete for clients has been, and will always be, accomplished using only my human brain and ten human fingers, never using AI bots, Grammarly, or other software options.

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