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Writing
is thinking about writing, then a rush of activity to get the thoughts
on paper, somehow. Then it's a matter of rewriting until both the
writer and, hopefully, the reader agree it's
writing. And computers make that whole
process a hell of a lot easier.
Michael A. Cox 2005
Magazines and
Newspapers
Sure,
I'll take the plushy assignments. For almost 10 years I traveled
all over the world staying in fine hotels and playing golf so I
could write stories for GOLF Magazine. But I've
done the dirty work too, journaling the gritty farm labor strikes
back in the 60s; I've slept in paper sleeping bags covering wildfires
that ravaged the Southwest. The point is, if there is a story to
be told I can tell it for you in exactly the number of words and
in the voice you need. And you'll get the story on time, by wire
or by mail. In digital format or in hard copy. Want
Some Clips? Click on the titles below.
Riding
The Royal Scotsman
(Golf
Magazine) |
Never
Retire
(Personal Excellence) |
Playing
Work
(Equal Opportunity Employment Journal) |
Bert
Yancy: Back From The Brink
(American Golf) |
Mall
Crawling In Marrakech
(Available) |
Summer
Golf In The Desert
(Spec piece) |
Books
and Movies
My
latest book is Don't Retire--New Life Strategies For Aging
Boomers and Other Lost Souls, which is on the
market now from M&J Southwest. It is available
here on our site as well as at Amazon and Barnes
and Noble. (ISBN # 0-9744534-0-4) While I have other projects in
mind and always have something going, I am open to ghost and contract
writing (Click
here for a short ghost story).
My subjects of choice are travel, golf, psychology, modern history,
medicine and biography, but I'll tackle anything. After all, the
research is half the fun. I'm just finishing a fascinating biography
for a black man who grew up in segregationist/depression era Mississippi.
That will go to press in late March. I'm currently under contract
to edit another biography and write a screenplay on a well-known
businesswoman's life that was filled with tragedy at the close of
2004. Click
here for all of my books credits.
If you have a book project in mind and want to talk about it click
here here to send me an e-mail.
I
have six completed screenplays, one of which has been optioned twice
and is currently in development hell. The Last Cowboy,
and Holiday,Earp & Goldfarb are two of my screenplays
and a completely polished an ready for director perusal. Click
on the title below to see the synopsis of some of my work.
| The
Last Cowboy |
Holiday
Earp & Goldfarb |
| Mama's
Chandelier |
Justice
Served |
Speech Writing
I'm
going to brag here--I really good and this. I have a knack for listening
to someone speak and then writing dialogue for them. It can be a
major keynote speech or a simple holiday toast. There
is a thing I call the "music of speech" and I can hear
someone's music when they talk. I recently listened to a client
on the phone and then wrote dialogue for her book project. When
she read it to a friend they thought she had written it herself--she
hates to write, so Id do it for her. In more than 20 years of writing
magazine and newspaper stories in which I quoted thousands of people
I have never accused of misquoting anyone. Not because I always
got every word they said correct, but because I wrote what they
were saying the way they said it. It's more than taking notes and
getting the words, it's about the music of the speaker. Got a lecture
or speech to do, I've got the words, they way you would say them.
Email me for references
and prices.
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