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Jill Shearer is a Wiltshire-based writer and journalist with over fifteen years' writing experience on a wide variety of subjects from toddler taming to green issues and interior design.                                                                               "While much of my career has been working on blue-chip consumer magazines - including Homes & Gardens, 25 Beautiful Homes, Country Living, Woman's Realm and Practical Parenting - I've also written for The Daily Telegraph, have experience in book publishing, copywriting and PR and have ghost-written for well-known names.  I undertake commissions large and small, from drafting a letter or a speech to researching in-depth features or writing copy for marketing and advertising."          


Areas of interest:                                    

  • LIFESTYLE, HOME AND WOMEN'S INTEREST FEATURES
  • PROFILES / INTERVIEWS
  • GREEN & ETHICAL LIVING
  • PARENTING
  • CONSUMER & PERSONAL FINANCE
  • HEALTH & WELLBEING
  • POPULAR PSYCHOLOGY 

With a post-graduate qualification in journalism from the London College of Printing (now Communication), I have a broad experience of many different types of journalism including all aspects of copy editing, and magazine production from flatplanning through to reprographics. Specific areas of experience and expertise are in:

  • NEWS & FEATURE WRITING
  • COPYWRITING
  • SUB-EDITING / COPY EDITING / PRINT PRODUCTION
  • CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS
  • WRITING FOR WEB 
  • RESEARCH
  • GHOSTWRITING

"The primary purpose of writing is to communicate.  The best kind of writing informs, inspires, enlightens and entertains without losing sight of the message"

All the images on the following pages are extracted from magazine features I have written. Contact me at jillshearer@resourcefulwriter.co.uk

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re·source·ful  [ri-sors-fuh l]
–adjective:  able to deal skillfully and imaginatively with new situations; capable of finding effective solutions to a variety of problems   [Origin: 1611 [O Fr. ressource, resourdre – to rise again]
–Synonyms talented, able, imaginative, adroit

 
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