Writing and Editing Services

MEETING THE WRITING NEEDS OF BUSINESSES

Whether describing a process, policies, or procedures, hire a professional to write it. Have outdated training and procedures that need to be revised? Hire a professional to write them. Is your company wasting time training and retraining employees because vital policies and procedures aren't written? Hire a professional to write them. OSHA, HIPAA and EEOC compliance documentation needed? Hire a professional.

Hiring an outside consultant means you don't have to pay for health insurance, retirement, overtime or training. Work can be done at an hourly or fixed rate. Joni's rates fall in the mid-range of standard rates based on the type of project. See The Writer's Market, issued annually by Writer's Digest Books, for a list of rates. Thanks to decades of experience, Joni works quickly and efficiently.

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Email a 5-page sample for a free edit.

MEETING THE EDITING NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS

Do you have a large writing project that needs editing, proofreading, and critique? Fiction or non-fiction, hire a professional. Joni's editing, proofreading, and formatting deliver the highest standards of accuracy, brevity, clarity and passion.  

Click on Services or Published Works on the left to see examples of Joni's business and personal writing.

Email a 5-page sample for free editing. No poetry or pornography please! These are not Joni's skill areas. 

CRAFTING MEMORABLE DIALOGUE WORKSHOP

The 2012 offerings of the online 4-week workshop are:

January 5-31 through the Lowcountry Chapter of Romance Writers of America on their website: http://www.lowcountryrwa.com. 

March 1-31 through the Outreach International Romance Writers. See their website: http://www.oirwa.com/forum/campus/. 

September 4-28 through Elements of RWA. See their listings on: http://www.workshops@elementsofrwa.com.

See Joni's related articles published on the Savvyauthors.com website:
"Dialogue: Abused and Misused" http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/content.php?1399/ and
"Dialogue: When Characters Talk the Talk" http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/content.php?1585. 

This course is designed for fiction writers, college age and above, who have completed at least the first draft of a novel. The first 15 students to sign up receive a detailed critique of the first 50 pages of their manuscript.

At the end of the workshop students will be able to:

Identify the purposes and limitations of dialogue
Infuse dialogue with conflict to make each conversation matter. One acting technique and nine elements show how to enliven  dialogues ranging from polite debates to violent confrontations.
Construct dialogue with depth of meaning that flows at two levels.
Fine tune dialogue to create suspense and raise questions in the reader's mind.
Transform predictable exchanges into memorable, fresh dialogue using a simple creativity technique.
Craft believable, dynamic conversations that cut to the chase by applying the Less-Is-More adage to dialogue. Learn when to summarize and to use fragment quotes.
Talk the talk. Individualize characters by employing any of eleven revealing markers. See how to conduct field research for dialogue.
Apply the stimulus/response pattern to maintain clarity of action in a scene.
Use dialogue tags, action tags, and thought tags to show the character's goals and motivations.
Format and punctuate dialogue properly.