I fell in love with writing as a child standing backstage at Broadway theaters watching my Mother perform. I was lucky enough to find my first literary job right out of college at DDB Advertising, the ad agency that inspired the hit TV show, Mad Men. It was there that I developed my knack for writing prose and humor, as well. The latter translated into a career writing television shows and screenplays in Hollywood and winning an Emmy award in the process. It was when I found myself being so...
I fell in love with writing as a child standing backstage at Broadway theaters watching my Mother perform. I was lucky enough to find my first literary job right out of college at DDB Advertising, the ad agency that inspired the hit TV show, Mad Men. It was there that I developed my knack for writing prose and humor, as well. The latter translated into a career writing television shows and screenplays in Hollywood and winning an Emmy award in the process. It was when I found myself being so talkative about it to anyone who would listen that I realized I possessed a dormant pedantic streak and I returned to college for a masters degree in order to teach creative writing, which I eventually did, as a part-time assistant professor at three universities.
I feel it safe to say that my command of the combined arts of prose, persuasion and the visual is a rarity among tutors and as such a rare value to my students. In addition, by way of introducing them to eloquent, captivating syntax, phrasing and vocabulary, I endow each with a love for language and education in general.
The great novelist, Alexander Dumas said: "If you want to write and you don't write, then you don't want to write," I adopted this as my motto and recommend it to you for yours. Moreover, I have personally known what I have seen in other writers: eyes aflame with the thrill of finding the perfect word. For me, it is even more thrilling to see it in the eyes of my students. And so it shall be when I see it in yours. And it is yours for the asking.
