Howell Creative

Communicating quickly and clearly is especially important in business writing. Here’s a feature article on ways to improve your business writing.

Momentum means a lot when writing. Once you get started you want to keep going. When I think about the craft of writing I remember a scene from the dark comedy Throw Mama From the Train starring Billy Crystal and Danny DeVito.

My first article published in the Central Florida Legal Assistant’s newsletter, ALA Crosstalk. This advice is as good today as it was in 1994, lighten up at work.

I wrote the Job/Family Balancing Act article for this edition. It was fun to do a newsletter for employees. You had the freedom to try some different things and encourage folks to contribute.

I wrote the cover story on planning for your vacation. The messages from the president were always pretty good. Sometimes the president can be a little, well, difficult.

This was the first issue of the newsletter I created for the Center for Independent Living in Central Florida, Independent Life. In this issue I wrote about assistive technology.

In this issue I interview a lady that received a wheelchair ramp built by our agency.

In this issue I do a profile of a business owner with disabilities who does balloon art and an article on the Road to Freedom tour.

I write a good article on emergency preparedness and the special needs of people with disabilities in disasters.

This was one of the only newsletters with story submissions from staff. I did the editing and wrote other articles to fill out this issue.

This was the first issue of the big presidential election year so I wrote an article on voting rights.

I worked as a technical writer for FedEx for a few years. I wrote all the support documentation for an in-house software project called GENESIS. This document details the software load policy.

This is a report I helped the Managing Director put together on the monthly activities of the GENESIS project.

Before I worked for the Center for Independent Living I volunteered for them. I was asked to produce a whole package of marketing communications for a special event called the Southern Garden Stroll. Here’s a press release written for that event.

Rampage is an annual wheelchair ramp building project conducted at the Center for Independent Living. Here’s a release I wrote for the event.

Here is the press release I wrote for the wheelchair ramp building event Rampage 2007.