Category Archives for Writers’ Rough Drafts
Writers’ Rough Drafts – Episode #35 With Yi Shun Lai
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Yi Shun Lai is an author, a copy and content writer, an editor, and a writing coach and teacher based out of Southern California. Her debut novel, Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu, was a Semi-Finalist, Thurber Prize for American Humor. Through her own site, The Good Dirt, she chronicles her day-to-day writing life, and has recently been live-blogging her thoughts and experiences reading through Jane Friedman’s book The Business of Being a Writer.
In addition to her writing work, she teaches at various colleges and learning events throughout the United States, and works as a writing coach for budding authors and entrepreneurs working on their first books. In her spare professional time, she is the co-owner and editor for the Tahoma Literary Review, which publishes vetted poetry, fiction, and non-fiction submissions three times a year. When she isn’t doing all that work to make the world more creative, she is making it a better place by volunteering with ShelterBox, an organization that provides emergency services and supplies to areas affected by natural disasters or conflict.
Writers’ Rough Drafts – Episode #34 With Sara De Lille
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Sara De Lille is a freelance and content writer based in Mexico City. In addition to her work writing for brands and clients on the web, she is also a regular improvisation comedy performer, coming up with quick takes and brilliant commentary on the spot in sketches and stage performances. While most of her writing work in done in Spanish, she is a skilled English-language comedian as well, taking classes and doing shows in the Los Angeles area.
When she isn’t writing or speaking for pay or laughs, she runs the site LetsRiot.tv, which started as a place for her to share her insights on art and music in Mexico, but has since grown to be a site with multiple female contributors. As she says on the site, Let’s Riot is: “A group of girls willing to make noise, to write and share about personal experiences, to talk about what happens to us, interests us and makes us uncomfortable.”
Writers’ Rough Drafts – Episode #33 With Hillary Weiss
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Hillary Weiss is a brand voice strategist, copywriter and content writer, social media stand-up, The Wordshops DIY course creator, and all-around word badass. Since 2011, when she first transplanted from the sunny tropics of Florida to the icy winters of New York City, she has helped more than 500 brands become unmistakable, with words that speak their language and fit their phenomenal work.
With a background in public relations and marketing before she dove into the world of “wordlance for hire,” Hillary believes content has to be better than “good.” She lives this belief by leading brands to create evocative experiences with smart, succinct phrasing that blasts through the echo chamber of our digital universe.
Writers’ Rough Drafts – Episode #32 With Jesse Lawler
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Jesse Lawler is a self-experimental, jack of all trades. He is a location independent entrepreneur who runs an entire software developing company from his offices in Los Angeles and Saigon. Jesse worked for years at the Hollywood Grind as a screenwriter and producer on a half dozen movies. He spends much of his spare time writing and hosting a podcast over on his passion project site, Smart Drug Smarts. Jesse has built a fiercely engaged fan base of bio-hackers and personal optimization themes.