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Heavy meds for your pain points

I work with words and ideas. I help people make decisions about their work, then I help make their plans happen. I work with people who want to do good in this world or create things that delight you.

I’m Carolyn Wood. Pixelingo is my consultancy providing user-experience-focused writing, editing, content strategy, and creative direction for businesses, nonprofits, designers and other web-makers, artists, and indie publishers. Based in a grey, drizzly, secret hideaway, I work with clients from around the world.

Text and Contexts

Do you need:

  • Strategy and tactics for a clear way forward?
  • UX copywriting that reflects who you are and serves your clients well?
  • Writing that works with the design—from someone who respects design?
  • Voice and tone and editorial calendars?
  • Writing and messaging that is on-brand and adds life to your story?
  • The, er, story? The, um, brand?
  • Respectful, helpful sites for human beings who are dealing with seriously hard stuff?
  • A screenplay for a video?
  • Untangling of all the words?
  • A “Getting Started” section that actually gets people started?
  • Assistance with an art or typography project that needs titles or text?
  • A magazine that requires editing or a tightly-run ship?
  • Dang good bios and About pages that get you speaking gigs without heightening your inner sense of the “Imposter Syndrome”?
  • A redesign that says something fresh, that resonates with people, but needs a Vulcan mind-melder to make you think, “Egads! That’s exactly what I’ve been trying to say!”
  • Advice about making something that hasn’t been invented yet, and perhaps helping you invent it?

“Yes, I do that!” I cried, “Yes, yes, yes, yes, oh, wow, yes, and yes!” I’ve lost track of the correct number of “yesses,” but, yes: thinking, words, people, ideas, action, clarity, community, relevance.

Who Are You, Really, and Why Hasn’t It Happened Yet?

I also work with people who are ready to make their dreams finally happen. Laughing, listening, questioning, being on your side. I do some or all of this: help you find or define your hope, longing, or idea; map out the plan; get things started; lift up rocks and if there are icky things crawling around under there, deal with them; find your distinct voice and brand; sometimes interview people from your company, your desired audience, or your peers; work with you to make the vision for your project or company take shape—and, in the end, make it better than what you envisioned. You are likely much more remarkable than you realize, and I’m going to pry that awesomeness loose so we can show the world. I used to be a midwife. This process is another version of that. (Except, then, no prying was involved.)

Let’s get it done.

Availability

You shoulda called me months ago, at the beginning of the project. You knew you shoulda, didn’t ya? Well, last-minute-itis abounds across the land. So, even when I'm fairly booked, I try to reserve wiggle room, especially for intriguing projects with people I enjoy from the first hello. Or, maybe I just have an obsession with the phrase “wiggle room.” Which project excites you or really matters to you? I want THAT job. Bring me in when it's still a gleam in your eye, or you feel in your bones that the project needs a more winning or meaningful message, some clarity or extra oomph, some creative direction, or just some spit and polish. Well, at least some polish. If you think you have a project that might tickle my fancy, let’s see if we’re right for each other.

I suggest contacting me soon if you're thinking of using my services between today and the end of January, 2014. I'd be happy to have a chat with you.

Selected Former Projects

New Personal Projects

I hope to have a new site, blog, and more personal projects launched between now and the end of the year. Here's one:

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