The Beginning

My fondness for storytelling was instilled in me as a
small child. My mother read children’s books to me all
the time and encouraged me to examine the illustrations
and talk about what I saw. Not surprisingly, characters
began to visit me at an early age and I felt compelled to
capture their stories as best I could. I think the earlier
ones were written on construction paper with my crayons.
My characters were talking farm animals and they enjoyed    
life just like humans did. I didn't learn punctuation until a few  
years later, so much to my mother's delight, the three-page
story of Mr. Pig's party was a very long run-on sentence.



The Middle

As I grew older, I continued to write and began to bring
my handwritten stories to school for my classmates to
read. My looseleaf booklets were a huge hit and were the
equivalent of today’s social networking profiles, where
instead of a keyboard, my "followers" used actual writing
utensils to leave comments. Despite going to college to
pursue a science degree, I never forgot my love of writing,
and managed to entertain quite a few professors when
given the green light to sprinkle a little creative life into
an otherwise bland report.



Nowhere Near the End

Today I live in the nation's capital, where I feel very fortunate
to be in walking distance to the White House, the Washington
Monument, and the Supreme Court. In my spare time, I
volunteer in my community, take interesting classes, travel to
New York City, attend writing workshops, and add paragraphs
to a growing library of fiction works that I hope to see on a
bookstore shelf much sooner than later. My fiction writing is
centered around small town life in the South. I'm most
comfortable developing my characters and their lives in these
settings―often marked with spirituality and superstition―
because of my own southern roots.

I enjoy this job of creating and manipulating words.
When you're passionate about a craft, you invest in your
knowledge of it, hone your skills, seek out new challenges,   
and discover that although you'll never learn everything―you
can get really close.




















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"When a true genius
appears, you may know
him by this sign: that
the dunces are all in
confederacy against
him."

-Jonathan Swift


"The role of a writer is
not to say what we all
can say, but what we
are unable to say."

-Anaïs Nin


"Mistakes are a fact of
life. It's the response to
the error that counts."

-Nikki Giovanni
Jennifer Singleton

Writer, Editor
Copyediting


Proofreading
While At Work...  
My Writing and
Editing Specialties
At-a-Glance

Substantive Editing
and Copyediting:

Résumés
Newsletters
Brochures
Policy manuals
Reports
Press releases
News articles
Conference materials
Fiction works

Technical Writing:

Book/media reviews
Local interest pieces

Creative Writing:

Short story author
Aspiring novelist

Coursework:

Technical Writing
News Writing
Fiction Writing
Substantive Editing
Proofreading
Principles of Editing    
for Publications

Style Manuals I've
Worked With:

Chicago Manual of  
Style
American Medical
Association (AMA)
American
Pyschological   
Association (APA)
Associated Press (AP)
While At Play...  

I ensure that a
document's content
is formatted correctly
and contains
consistent and
concise language.
This ensures that the
target audience will
find it easy to read
and understand.
Technical Writing


Creative Writing
Jennifer Singleton

And Ponder the
Musings of Other
Minds...
Perform Freelance
Editing...

Testimonial

"It was a great
pleasure working with
Jennifer Singleton. I
had an article that
needed editing and
was referred to Ms.
Singleton for the job.
She was very
professional when we
discussed my
expectations, her
expectations and
compensations. I was
very pleased when the
project was finished on
time and I was
extremely impressed
with the finished work.
I will definitely be
recommending Ms.
Singleton to others
while also continuing to
use her service."

-Melissa Hughes,
Contributor, Gettysburg
Times