Specializations

Theology/Philosophy

I have several years of experience in proofreading academic writing and have also worked extensively with authors whose first language is not English.

This, as well as my background in Theology and Philosophy makes me alert to the meaning and implications of the text. In these fields, small ambiguities in phrasing – even if perfectly correct grammatically – can cause confusion and even outright error on a level that automatic translating or editing technology (or even a human translator or editor unfamiliar with the field) will not pick up.

 

Fiction

"Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts, I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of parts. I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire and to Obermann…. That, like it or not, is the way to learn to write...."

-Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Following Robert Louis Stevenson's advice has been my own approach to learning to write fiction. It's taught me at least the craft of writing! 

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