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writing and editing services
With more than 20 years’ experience and a reputation for never missing a deadline, you can breathe easy outsourcing your writing and editing to me.
I work on a freelance or contract basis, as needed, and have experience in newsletters, magazines, online writing, SEO, blogs, social media, advertorials, PR, community newspapers and more. I’ve written most things from art and business to science, sport and travel. You’ll find some published writing samples below.
Upskill for Winter
With the arrival of winter, I decided that it was time to brush up on my crampon skills, and learn how to use the ice axe I carried as something more than a short walking stick with some lethal spikey parts.
Lockdown experiments in fungiculture
For lockdown I turned a blind eye to the opportunity to spring clean the house, learn a new language, brush up on virology, or spend four hours a day on yoga or any other form of pretzel-wrestling. After a few weeks of numbed-out indecision doing a combination of walking the dog and diddly-squats, I settled on specialising in fungiculture.
Give surfing a go
Shaz goes on a reporting mission for The Oxford Observer and discovers that she isn’t too old to give surfing a go. No awards were won, but a lot of fun was had. Find out if you too should give surfing a go.
Ticking off Kepler
Whether you plan to enjoy the 60km circular Kepler Track, one of New Zealand’s stunning Great Walks, over a leisurely three or four days – or in a body-grinding five-plus-hour mountain run as part of the Kepler Challenge – Fiordland’s Kepler Track should be on your bucket list. Sharon Davis tells us more.