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I'd like to say life is like the picture above. But it ain't. Even if it was like that, I'd still work. I love what I do.
Can't think of anything else I'd rather do or be than to be working as a writer.
Not that it's easy. It's not. In fact, it can be damn hard. But, as Tom Hanks says in A League Of Their Own, "It's
supposed to be hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it."
So what do I write? (Luckily, I've never heard that one before). Well, besides my own scriptwriting and the book I'm working
on, I do pretty much every kind of writing there is. In one of Marlon Brando's early pictures, The Wild One, he's head of
a motorcycle gang, and someone asks him, "What are you rebelling against?" And Brando just looks at him with that
incredibly cool stare and says, "Whaddya got?"
That's kind of the way I am about freelance writing. Someone says, Whaddya write?" And I (unfortunately without the
cool Brando stare) reply, "Whaddya got?"
Over the last 37 years, the time I've been working as a professional writer, I have written just about everything, every kind
of wordsmithing you can imagine, and maybe some you can't. I've done business plans, grant proposals, commercials and radio
spots, magazine editing and movie trailers, on-air promos for a nationally syndicated television show, venture capital documentation,
an investor's handbook, charts, graphs, speeches, coverage reports on screenplays, interviews, magazine articles and editorials,
even song lyrics (for Saturn and Mattel).
So, what do I write? Whaddya got?
My clients have included MGM/UA, 20th-Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Telepictures, Mazda, Molson Brewing, Animation Development
Company, Quincy Jones, Everest Venture Capital, Toyota, DemoNet, CyberSynergistics, Seattle Children's Museum, Orange County
Ad Club, EnVision, Prism Recording, Saturn, and Mattel Toys, to name a few.
If you want to work as a writer, you have one job: selling words for a living. Not always as easy a task as one might
think, as any veteran of the trade can tell you. But, if one has the talent, skill, and experience to do it well, it can be
highly rewarding.
Now, if you have a need for well-designed, well-written material for whatever purpose, let me ask you one simple question.
Whaddya got?
So, if you think there might be something we could talk about that would benefit your business, give me a call at 512-586-3861.
I think we might be able to come up with some very workable ideas.
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