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Senior Writers! Don’t Make This Mistake.
Not everyone knows who Columbo is.
I am a writer, but I’m also a writing coach and editor-for-hire.
For decades, I’ve worked with writers to improve and publish their prose. I’ve also edited dozens of story collections for a variety of publishers.
I work with beginning writers and accomplished writers, and every kind of writer in between, on projects ranging from 500-word humor pieces to 500-page novels.
My current specialty is helping essayists upgrade and publish their work.
A lot of my clients are seniors, which makes sense because many seniors have both the time and disposable income to devote to learning how to improve their writing.
One issue I often have to raise with my older writing clients is how to write for a readership that includes folks who are younger than they are.
Writers born in the 1950s and 1960s often assume that their shared values and forms of expression are universal.
