am a writer.

I can say what needs saying or figure out what people are trying to say and say it in fewer words, so more people will understand. Internet surfers have short attention spans, and I can condense pages of type into paragraphs that say the same thing better.

I've been an editor for more than 40 years. I can organize text into succinct, coherent communications. I can write technical, news or personality stories, and I have many years’ experience writing press releases, especially for nonprofit clients.

Another specialty is writing down-to-earth art criticism and first-person experiences. My stories have been published in Atlanta's Art Papers, Houston's Art Scene Magazine, DallasArtsrevue, The Dallas Morning News, Dallas NOTES, Hooka, The Austin Sun, The River City News, Iconoclast, Texas Jazz, Dallas Jazz News and Glass Tire.

D-Magazine named me Dallas’ Best Local Arts Promoter in August 2004, for the stories I write about art and artists in the pages DallasArtsRevue.com.

If you'd like me to write or edit your project, check my price, then E-mail me.

 

My Best Writing

These are links to my best and favorite stories. Since words and ideas are so close, there may be overlap between these and the links on the Ideas page.

AN EXPERIMENTAL story incorporating the concept of Centripetal Force and Personal Confusion is on ThEdblog #3, always linked on The ThEdblog Index here. December 2007

I WROTE a large, complex story about the art program at DFW's new Terminal D. That web page incorporates a variety of information types into one long, complex feature. Writing it was a public experiment I shared with my readers as I wrote, rewrote, edited in and out, organized and reorganized information, facts, opinions and photographs.

I AM particularly proud of my coverage of the 2005 Texas Biennial Exhibition in Austin. It was a large and fascinating show, and writing about it set me on fire. The founder of GlassTire, Houston's online art magazine said of it, ”WOW.”

PERHAPS one of the most expressive stories I ever wrote was about my late friend Georgia Stafford’s retrospective, Left Right Neo-Obsessivism which I curated and produced in 1985. It was originally written for Houston’s ArtScene magazine, which unfortunately folded before they could publish it. They called it “World-class writing.” I published it in DallasArtsRevue on paper.

CLOSELY associated is a story called About Her Death that began as a wildly poetic letter to my late friend, poet and writer Gerald Burns.

SOMETIMES I like to experiment with stories and pictures. Like Of Whirligigs & Other People's Magic.

I DON'T know whether it will rank as my best writing, but J R's Summer Art Essays delves into eclectic ideas of and about, in and around media and understanding and art. In most ways, this series is off-beat and eXperimental.

AND there's a short, poignant photo essay in Memorial to my dear friend Carol Wilder who was murdered by a drunk driver in early 2003. The Dallas Morning News Art Editor like my story so well she signed her name to major portions of it, complete with early misspellings of one of Carol's children's name.

My Best Poetry

My Metaphysical Writings

Poemagraphics

Gradually, I'll track down more, but this is a good start.

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