This is a page for writing out links to all my writings. As you can tell the copy on this page is a first draft
I've split writings into Copy and Technical Writing, Research Papers and Original Fiction for your convenience.
Copywriting includes any and all writing created with an eye toward marketing and uplifting a brand, including internal copy such as the business plan linked below. Technical writing includes documentation for programming projects I've worked on. Pieces in this section exemplify my ability to write to a specified style and tone, resulting in readable copy that draws in potential clients rather than boring them to death.
As a volunteer and team member at the Kansas City Robotics Foundation, I wrote a new marketing strategy and composed dozens of tweets from 2016-2019, eventually growing our Twitter account from around 25 followers to nearly 1,000 when I left the organization. I also took accompanying photo and video footage, and edited promotional videos to embed on our social medias. Examples below.
Proud to announce we set an @FTCMO score record yesterday & took home the Inspire Award! Looks like we're Houston-bound ✌ pic.twitter.com/3RRpnoxjCM
— KC Astromechs (@KCAstromechs) March 10, 2019
Getting a little pre-State practice in, hosted by our friends @4964Ftc 🇺🇸👍 pic.twitter.com/Uo8G4j4ycD
— KC Astromechs (@KCAstromechs) March 9, 2019
Meet SlaHappy, our first robot of the season. We're excited to compete with him tomorrow in our first meet at St Teresa's Academy. #RoverRuckus #FTC pic.twitter.com/SS3oWP2t2G
— KC Astromechs (@KCAstromechs) November 30, 2018
Garet's proposed alignment grid accurately shows our feelings about different building materials. We're definitely chaotic good. 😉 pic.twitter.com/kLZlZ6BVZA
— KC Astromechs (@KCAstromechs) January 17, 2018
New system on a robot? High five! pic.twitter.com/bEJgJAYPwa
— KC Astromechs (@KCAstromechs) December 10, 2017
I wrote this business plan with an aim of increasing the visibility of both my team (KC Astromechs) and our host organization (KCRF), with the hope of establishing potential for long-term brand and organizational growth.
Completed as part of a "writing challenge" for a past potential client, this piece was designed as copy for the website of a hypothetical medical spa that recently acquired an Exion machine. My challenge was to write something that could both attract new customers searching for Exion treatment, and educate existing clients about the treatment.
Under construction
Research Papers were written for classes during the completion of my undergraduate degree. Pieces in this section demonstrate my research, analysis and synthesis skills, as well as my ability to translate complex topics into easily understood prose.
This essay, an exploration of literature, science, and philosophy, was written as a final paper for a senior-level honors English course designed to prepare students to write an undergraduate thesis. It earned an A.
This piece, a response to the Dobbs ruling focusing on its implications for American social policy, was written as a final paper for a senior-level Sociology course.
Fiction pieces are writings I have completed on my own time. This comprises the majority of my writing experience and taught me my rigorous attention to detail, command of diction and grammar, and sense for storytelling. If you read any of these I love you forever.
This piece of flash fiction was originally drafted in 2017 and ultimately published under a previous name by the undergraduate literary journal of the University of Missouri, EPIC. It's found on page 40 of the Fall 2020 edition and is also mentioned by the editor in the edition's foreword.
This short story was originally drafted in 2023, in the midst of a then-record-breaking heat wave, during which I had also had to move house. The summer only got hotter after this story was written, and 2024's heat waves have only proven more intense.
Various pieces of fan fiction can be found on my AO3 page, including the 233,000 word fan novel Brighter Fires. Please note that these pieces can only be viewed by members of the Archive Of Our Own, as I choose to keep these works semi-private for personal and legal reasons.