Freelance writer for hire

 

Finding the right words to lift your text out of the ordinary is never easy. It takes time and skill to craft sentences which will inspire the reader. I specialise in writing text for websites, articles, newsletters, brochures and press releases – you can see some examples on my portfolio page.  If you are searching for an experienced writer to add panache to your project, at a reasonable cost, please drop me a line. Email:  larakelly@hotmail.co.uk

 

Sleep deprivation

Anyone who has been through it will know what I’m talking about. Sleep deprivation is very dangerous. It makes you feel as if you are constantly at the end of your tether. You can hardly string sentences together and you find yourself drifting into trances at odd times of the day. Thinking about how early you can manage to go to bed at night becomes an obsession. Unwelcome wake-up calls in the early hours are first dreaded, then accepted as inevitable. It is recognised as a very effective torture technique for goodness sake. Make it stop!

 

Back from the dead!

Amongst all the shrivelled brown plants in our garden there are finally one or two signs of life! Many supposedly hardy plants have expired but there are a couple of survivors, valiantly pushing out tentative green shoots. That’s real, tangible green shoots of recovery, as opposed to political claptrap about the state of our economy. Nurtured with fertiliser and the occasional ray of Spring sunshine, they are back for more climate-related punishment. Suckers.

 

Woolly jumpers and hot porridge

It’s back to the daily routine now that the most dazzling snow white Christmas is over and the car is no longer frozen to the driveway. Steaming bowls of porridge, crackling log fires and woolly jumpers are the highlights of the day. In the midst of all the snow I found myself finishing off a series of articles about forest fires, which felt very incongruous. Wonder what the next assignment will be…

 

On finding new respect for Elton John

Elton John has been on my mind recently as I’ve had to write about every single one of his studio albums, and he made a vast number of them. I didn’t have to listen to the records but the songs have still got inside my head somehow. They are like familiar old friends, not that I was ever really into Elton John, but, like Abba songs, they were always there in the background. From his uplifting pop tunes of the seventies through eighties soft rock and sentimental ballads, there’s no escaping Sir Elton. In the process of researching the subject I gained a grudging new respect for a man who plays superb piano and writes pretty much all his own music (most lyrics provided by Bernie Taupin). His personal traumas and tantrums have been played out in the public eye, which can’t have been easy. Love him or loathe him, you’ve got to respect the man.

 

Now where did I put that Ark?

Yet more rain is descending on us, and we’re still recovering from a burst hot water pipe gushing gallons throught the ceiling, but the show must go on. There are some inspirational writing projects out there at the moment, keeping me busy at the keyboard, crafting and honing as I go. Weddings are a popular theme – I’m currently working on text for a wedding photographer’s website, and have just completed ten articles on wedding etiquette. It’s all so romantic.