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Wine Country Writer |
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| ML Archibald |
1083 Vine Street, #185
Healdsburg, CA 95448
mlarchibald@mac.com
Phone: 707-395-0542
Fax: 707-395-0542 |
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As a freelance business writer, I am dedicated to helping businesses with all types of written communication in order to save each client time, money and aggravation and provide clear, concise copywriting, editing and proofreading that presents each individual and business in the best possible light. |
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www.print2webcorp.com/news/santarosa/splash.a
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Qualifications |
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I wrote for Abode Magazine, and presently write for Simply Real Estate and other Press Democrat (a division of the New York Times) Special Sections publications. I have edited and published both newsletters and books; ads, articles and press releases; brochures and logos; speeches and video scripts. I am an outstanding writer who will doggedly pursue perfection in written expression for the benefit of my clients. I have also written direct mail letters for the Kentucky Nature Conservancy and the Healdsburg Senion Center. |
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My Outlook |
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Throughout my career I have always searched for enjoyment in my work, and have enjoyed most of all my association with the people I have met in the course of my professional life, even in times which have been both difficult and challenging. I love my work. |
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www.calwriters.org
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Business Skills |
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I have worked with a diverse cross-section of businesses, from nonproftis to service clubs to retail businesses, and am able to adapt my writing style to each. I am internet savvy; a careful and avid reader; an excellent speller (don't expect your spellchecker to do it for you!); and am intimately familiar with modern English usage (including the proper uses of lie and lay, I might add). I know how to follow directions to the letter, how to question what might be suspicious use of a particular word or phrase and how to bring a project in on time and on budget. Accuracy in writing gets your message across. That's where I come in. I can do writing, editing, fact checking and proofreading, if necessary. I promote the businesses with which I cooperate whenever I can, and especially those of my colleagues in Sonoma County. I work in partnership with other businesses (graphic designers, printers, etcetera), whenever I need to), in order to offer the most complete package I am able to present to make the lives of my clients easier. |
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www.ncmug.org
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Writing Credentials |
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I have been a member of North Coast Mac Users Group for years and was a frequent contributor to Gravenstein Apple Users Group Newsletter. Several of my stories were picked up by other user's groups around the country and republished in their newsletters. I have an essay in the recent book, Chicken Soup for the Single Parent's Soul, as mentioned below. |
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Writing Credentials |
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I am the former editor of the Friends of the Healdsburg Library Newsletter, EX LIBRIS and a former editor of the American Business Women's Association Wine Country Chapter Newsletter, and have been a member and editor of the newsletter for two years in the recent past. My article, "A Rookie's First Taste of Winemaking" appears in a Special Harvest Fair Issue of NorthBay Biz Magazine. I am a frequent contributor to the Press Democrat newspaper and ACRES magazine.
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www.norrisdesign.biz
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Professional Organizations |
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Editorial Freelancers Association
California Writers Club
American Business Women's Association, Newsletter Editor
National Association of Women Writers
Friends of the Healdsburg Library, Newsletter Editor
American Chronic Pain Association
Travelwriters.com
Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce, Ambassador
The American Chronic Pain Association
North Coast Mac Users Group |
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www.theacpa.org
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Achievements |
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I have managed as many as 30 people well and competently; taught many classes for adults in writing, drawing and interior design; had my work published in journals, newsletters and online; as Department Chairperson, I designed curricula for
implementation in Art and Literature classes at the high school level which proved to be among the most popular ever taught at my high school; and most important of all, as a
single parent, I raised two happy, well-adjusted children to productive adulthood. I am now specializing in writing about chronic pain and alternative therapies; Interior design; art, education and real estate. |
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Awards |
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First Prize, Redwood Writers Essay Contest, for my essay, "Confessions of a Writers Conference Virgin." Second Prize, Sonoma County Genealogical Society Essay Contest, for an essay entitled, "Love and War." In February 2005 my essay, "The Magic Spring,"
was published in the book, "Chicken Soup for the Single Parent's Soul." |
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education |
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California State University, Hayward |
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BA, English and Art |
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California State University, San Francisco |
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English and Art |
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University of California, Berkeley |
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Graduate Work: English, Art, Interior Design, Software Applications |
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Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park |
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General Secondary Teaching Credential in English and Art |
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skill |
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I am proficient in Microsoft Word, Adobe PhotoShop and Adobe PageMaker. I also have fifteen years teaching experience at the secondary and adult school level, and more than eight years experience in freelance writing. |
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References are available on request. |
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