© 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Idle Writer
Writing Services
I’ve been a professional proofreader, a copywriter, an editor and have written two novels myself. All this experience means that I can catch those missing words, the unnecessary apostrophe, the wrong tense and all the other subtle errors that creep into one’s writing. From morning till night I read everything that’s put in front of me and catch those errors when I don’t even want to – when reading a newspaper or a magazine advert or the back of a cornflakes packet! Here are just some of the items from my CV ...
|
·
|
Lectured in English and American Literature for 6 years (so I’ll work in either British English or American English, according to your choice).
|
|
·
|
Copywriter for several years - including the advert that recruited the first 100 scientists into British Nuclear Fuels’ reprocessing plant in Sellafield.
|
|
·
|
Designed, wrote and proofread a series of online management courses for the government-funded LearnDirect elearning provider.
|
|
·
|
Designed and wrote many online courses for major international clients, including Shell and Fujitsu.
|
|
·
|
Worked as an editor for an online editing agency, editing over a dozen novels in a range of genres.
|
|
·
|
Published two crime novels about a private detective in the North West of England. Go to my storefront here and click on the novels to be taken to their pages and read a preview.
|
|
·
|
I have a First Class Honours Degree in Creative Arts (English with Creative Writing and Drama) and a Masters in Twentieth Century English Literature.
|
Anyone who writes knows how hard it is to read your own material as if seeing it for the first time. You know what you intended to write, so when you read it over again your mind’s eye sees what it expects to see – not what is actually there. Basically, you need someone else to read it, too.
Free proofread!
Send me the first chapter of your novel and I’ll proofread it for free - no commitment, no obligation.
Just send a Word doc or RTF file to keith@theidlewriter.com for a free proofread - the grammar, spelling and punctuation - together with any other pertinent thoughts I might have about what I’ve read.
