~HOME~                                                           Freelancer writer home,                                                        academic writer home, memoir writer home, mental disability writer home, and home to a new and helpful article every month. Writers, readers, word lovers, welcome home. ABOUT~ Of course I enjoy writing about the creative genius behind the 4- parted--freelance writing, memoir writing, academic writing support, and mental disability writing--site, RoxanneWrites. Of course I have put thousands of hours into making this a site that will win awards for Most Useful Site.   Of course I have a big ego.  I'm a writer.  I'm an English assist. Prof..  I've won awards, received accolades kept for the top 5%.   But I also have a screwy sense of self-esteem, as well. I've  flunked Math classes.  I've turned boyfriends gay.  I've turned down and turned away from secure jobs to build a freelance writing life of pj’s and pb+j.   If, as Kate Halverson says, “you're all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed," then I present myself to you in leathers and furs and big gaudy glitter globs.  I come wearing high heels and a hat.  Yeah, right.  Haven't worn heels since the 70's and the only hat I have is made of tin foil. So how about instead of coming to you all duffed up, I stay right here...for you, hoping you get some use out of the following: CV      It's long, but it might just be useful.  My CV (Curriculum Vitae--Life's Work) covers my skills, abilities, and experience with freelance writing, web content writing, academic writing, memoir writing, and disability writing. TESTIMONIALS Also from the four areas are people who praised my pre-RoxanneWrites work, which I credit to a rigorous puritan upbringing.  15-hour days are the norm, aren’t they?   PORTFOLIO 1 Web content writing clips on a diversity of topics; half linked, half either ghostwritten or as of today unpublished by those I sold them to.  Also, links to samples of my technical writing, memoir writing, poetry, and creative nonfiction. PORTFOLIO 2 First, all writing is creative (generative).  But for the ease of distinction, I put a sample of genres on a separate page.  Creative non-fiction (disability writing and memoir writing) and poetry, that is.   ACADEMIC WRITING~ TIPS/TRICKS Academic writing is expository writing—that which exposes.  On this page we will look at the best ways to express what needs expressing…or exposure. SAMPLES These are not samples of academic writing I did, as I don’t do the writing for the student.  Instead, I get permission from top students to show models of successful academic writing.  It’s well known that we learn by mimicry and by reading in the mode we need to write in.   LINKS Helpful online dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other data sources.  Reliable general and discipline specific links, followed by links to 4 major documentation styles, so you can learn how to legally use the art and language of others. RESOURCES An online book list, of sorts, sorted by writing genre—sort of.  Academic, memoir, poetry, nonfiction how-to’s.   CONTACT~ I delight in writing, words, and in writing and reading words (and about words).  If you get through this sentence, email me.  For anything to do with the above. FREELANCE WRITING~ NICHE TYPES These pages are for novice writers interested in the types, or areas, of freelance writing. NICHE SAMPLES These are for novice writers seeking models.  (Again, these are not for lifting, poaching, selling…unless you wanna kick down some big royalties.) MENTAL DISABILITY  WRITING~ Fascinated with my own and others’ psychiatric disability/ies and having written my way from grammar, grade, and grad school(s) to a writing career, I search for the elusive site that is devoted solely to writers with mental disability.  Of the 100’s of brilliant catch-all sites for artists with all/any disabilities/y, so far I have not found a site specifically for writers and at the same time specifically for mental disorders.  So keep that in mind (ahem) when you visit this area.     TIPS/TRICKS As a writer with ADD, I have tricks.  And I have ways to acknowledge how by the very nature of our mental disabilities we are not dis-abled but are hyper- abled. LINKS As I noted above, we write by reading in our field of interest and by modeling our work on the work of others.  With disability writing, we also read to heal (just as many write to) as we research and then write.  This page is ½ book list for ADDers, Touretters, OCDers, cutters, and others for whom the mind reads the world in a unique way.  It is also ½ mental disability specific website list for…us.    MEMOIR WRITING~ I also teach memoir writing to our elders, an often hugely neglected group of writers with stories and creativity that we young‘uns can only hope to have when we join the inevitable demographic, seniorhood.  The memoir pages are to inspire and nudge you, our elders, to keep you from stagnating, from sleeping away your days, and to urge you to share those fascinating details you keep hidden away.  Bring on the tales of the ice box that had to be emptied every morning, the ice of the front line fighting you did in WWII, the heat of your first   HELP/IDEAS This page is to push you, nudge you, urge you—to help you open the vault of the past—with general inspirational prompts. TIPS/TRICKS/FREE LESSON This page is a free each month “lesson”—on using memory, tapping memory, and on using and making use of language…to write your life story. LINKS This page is the general book list where you can find books on memoir writing and books that are memoirs.  The authors are teachers, retired folk, older and younger.  So you have no excuse to back out now! RATES~ A negotiable chart, though my rates—especially for academic tutoring—are competitive and therefore reasonable.  Your work and getting it done are more important than charging you scads of dough. SITE MAP~ Ahem. WORDS~ Just some original delights I have collected over the years. PLAYS ON These are mondegreens--instances of misuse of the language that result in beautiful, fresh, honest, and/or funny poetry. PLAY WITH More for advanced academic or creative writers who are at the revising stage: how to tighten diction and make it honest, make it real.  I also included a few links to hair-tearing-outers, games that are for the true linguaphile.   WHO SAID SO? I set this up like a treasure hunt, so you start at this page and click on the go to page where the quote is to discover the name of the author.  I would love your responses on how fun this truly is. WRITING in GENERAL~ HELPFUL LINKS Included in the sobriety of resource/link pages of the academic writing, freelance writing, memoir writing, and mental disability writing are links to writing influences, trivia, and informational books and sites—all which contribute to your writing…be it formal or fantastic, casual or crazed.  The important thing is you write. TROPE of the MONTH Rhetorical devices for writers--definitions, models, and how-to suggestions... when I know how to, that is. OTHER RHETORICAL DEVICES A half-assed list.  Half-finished, that is.