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 brand clarity for businesses, healthcare practitioners and institutions, 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.
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“Yes, I do that!” I cried, “Yes, yes, yes! Yes to reaching people at their core, yes to rejecting the same-old stuff, yes to excellence, ideas, truth, action, clarity, community, relevance.” I think it is safe to say that I always do more and go deeper than you expected.
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.
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.
and work of various kinds with experts on the web such as
and many others who will now be offended because I did or didn’t mention them.
I have been doing more personal projects, which tend to be quite different from client work. Oh, look! Here's one! And another!