Marjorie R
Writer #3483
Joined 6/16/2011
6 Star Rating
100% Success
4,700 Projects
28 Endorsements
1 Elite Skills
Clients rave about Marjorie's work. She has a clear, clean writing style and research skills honed as a law journal editor.

She has written articles online for more than 15 years and has also written humor for American Greetings and crossword puzzles for the New York Times. She wrote an entertainment blog that was consistently in the top 5 in the Google search results, and at its peak was #1 out of a total of 66,499,997 results. She has a B.A. in Psychology from UC Berkeley, an M.A. in Creative Writing/English from SF State, and a J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law.

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Recent reviews (see Reviews tab for more):

Marjorie is amazing! She works quickly, communicates clearly, and brings a sharp, insightful intelligence to every project. I loved working with her.

Excellent writing. We'll definitely hire again.

Marjorie R performs exceptional work. I intend on working with her for a long time.

From the WriterAccess Monthly Newsletter:

Marjorie R is a classic case of “do great work, and the recognition will follow.” The client she did this brilliant work for was a legal client with very—and we do mean very—high expectations on the content they ordered. Marjorie went into the project knowing full well revisions were going to be part of the job.

However, that didn’t stop her from putting forth her A-game. The client’s reaction? Utter delight. Marjorie knocked this client’s socks off. No revisions necessary, she nailed it on her first attempt. Well done, Marjorie! We tip our hats to you.

** Marjorie's approach to content writing

Marjorie knows that content must be compelling to cut through the clutter. Your potential customers have a million other things they could be doing besides reading the content on your site. Marjorie's content will capture and hold your audience's attention. She writes clear, persuasive, fluff-free text that informs and/or entertains while getting your message where it needs to go.
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Specialties

Marjorie writes about psychology (including mindfulness, self-help, and research-based psychology), law (including employment discrimination, social security disability, workers' compensation, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)), health, and topics that interest boomers/seniors/people over 50.

Interests

Marjorie likes museums, book groups, ethnic restaurants, photography, and walking around New York City.

Education

UC Berkeley

BA, Psychology

San Francisco State University

Marjorie completed a Masters program in English/Creative Writing, where she worked on short stories. Workshops were the heart of the program, where groups of about a dozen students did close readings of each other's work and learned to give and receive useful feedback. Process classes, which focused on particular aspects of writing, and graduate and undergraduate literature courses were also part of the program. Marjorie's class was also the last to take orals for the M.A., which focused on three authors selected from different genres and time periods. Marjorie's authors were Isaac Bashevis Singer, Dorothy Sayers, and Shakespeare (just the tragedies).

UC Hastings College of the Law

Note Editor, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly
Public Interest Certificate

Legal

1,310 Projects Completed

Marjorie combines a background in law with exceptional writing skills. She is a California attorney (inactive, in good standing). She was a law review editor and writer for the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly and also has a graduate degree in creative writing.

She writes blog posts and web pages for these practice areas:

-- Labor and employment law: Employment discrimination, sexual harassment, Workers' Compensation, and Social Security disability.

-- Personal injury: Vehicle accidents, slip and falls, toxic exposure, and product liability.

-- Disability law: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employment, reasonable accommodations, housing, access.

Finance

253 Projects Completed

Marjorie writes about investing and personal finance, using language that makes these topics clear and interesting for a general audience.

Medical

150 Projects Completed

Marjorie writes about medical malpractice for law firms and about Medicare for insurance agents.

Entertainment

89 Projects Completed

Marjorie R. wrote a blog about a TV show that at its peak ranked #1 out of a total of 66,499,997 Google search engine results results. Another of her blogs got shout-outs from Entertainment Weekly. She also wrote slideshows that were syndicated nationally to the entertainment sections of local television news program websites.

Marketing

58 Projects Completed

Marjorie writes about content marketing for the WriterAccess blog. Titles include:
The Goldilocks Guide to Instructing Freelance Writers
How to Avoid Writer's Spread
The Hottest Trends for Content Marketing for Law Firms in 2018
Simplify: Studies Suggest Using Plain Language When Writing Web Content
What Is a Call to Action, and Why Do You Need One?
The Science of Writing Content for Websites
The Changing Voice of Search
What Old Jokes Can Teach Content Marketers

Self Help

56 Projects Completed

Reading self-help books is one of Marjorie's favorite guilty pleasures. Some books have had a huge impact. In particular, years ago, "Feeling Good" by David Burns, M.D., was literally life-changing. Her current favorite self-help authors include Rick Hanson and Martha Beck.

Marjorie also enjoys writing in the genre. Here at WriterAccess, she has helped the author of a book on psychological growth for women. She has also written blog posts for sites that provide bite-sized psychological and spiritual advice. She has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, where she learned about psychology as an experimental science, and she is fascinated by the way that science and concepts adapted from Buddhism are coming together in contemporary psychology.

Humor

52 Projects Completed

Marjorie R. has written humor for many greeting card companies, including American Greetings. She wrote the copy for a card that won a "Louie," the greeting card industry's less-glamorous equivalent of the Oscar. She has also written political satire.

Technology

27 Projects Completed

While Marjorie is not a technical writer, she enjoys writing for a general audience about how technology affects us and how it will change life as we know it in the future. She has written about artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

Science

27 Projects Completed

Marjorie has never lost her sense of awe about the natural world. She enjoys sharing her enthusiasm by writing articles that present accurate scientific information to the general public in an accessible and entertaining way. Her main interests are biology and psychology. While not a scientist, when she was in college, she worked in a psychology lab on an experiment that tested the relationship between memory formation and protein synthesis in the brain. She has taken coursework (mostly at UC Berkeley) in genetics, ecology and evolution, statistics and experimental design, and many aspects of psychology.

She is currently writing articles about the cutting edge (no pun intended) of genetic editing, including CRISPR-Cas9 technology.

Relationships

17 Projects Completed

Marjorie has written nationally syndicated articles about relationships.

Article

1,325 Projects Completed

Marjorie R has been writing informative and entertaining articles online for almost 14 years. Her training in creative writing helps her capture and keep readers' attention. Her training in law helps her write persuasively and logically. Her long experience writing online helps her know what will and won't be effective with both search engines and readers.

Blog Post

1,233 Projects Completed

Some of the blog posts Marjorie has written for her WA clients have gone viral.

Product Description

103 Projects Completed

Marjorie R writes vivid descriptions that bring a product's best features and benefits to life, tempting consumers to click on the "buy" button.

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