Wildwood Editing is here to support creative storytellers, whether you’re writing newsletters envisioning how to change this world or exploring new worlds through narrative games or novels.
At its heart, storytelling with Wildwood is about embracing the connections that come from speaking up and sharing your voice with the world, and uplifting and celebrating voices from all cultures and identities.
Sure, editing involves checking modifiers and punctuation, but it’s so much more: Curiosity. Creativity. Connection. Lots of things that don’t start with the letter C, like empowerment and advocacy and justice and collaboration.
(Oops, back to C again.)
Speaking of words that start with C, you might be familiar with what some call the Four C’s of Editing: clear, concise, correct, and consistent.
These are an excellent foundation to the practice of editing. As for its heart, I have a few extra C’s of my own.
Hello! I’m Simone (she/they), a queer + neurodivergent language adventurer and a fierce believer in creating better worlds, both real and imagined.
When I’m not championing the work of my wildly creative, kind, and brave clients, I’m often reading, writing, and playing narrative games (favorites include Starfinder, Wanderhome, and Dragon Age). I also deeply love exploring forests with my spouse and our Disreputable Dog,* experimenting with watercolors, and moonlighting for artisans at Renaissance Festivals across the US.
I primarily live and work in the incredibly beautiful Pacific Northwest on the ancestral lands of numerous indigenous tribes, including the Stl’pulmsh (Cowlitz) and Guithla’kimas (Clackamas) peoples as well as many other groups in the present-day Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde and Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians. Wildwood (both the company and the forest trail it’s named after) would not be here today without their historic and ongoing stewardship.
To learn more about whose land you’re on, Native Land offers a good starting place. Additional resources include the Native Governance Center’s guide to land acknowledgments and Resource Generation’s guide to land repatriation.
*After years of rereading Garth Nix’s Abhorsen trilogy, we finally rescued our own Walker (named Penny Kibeth in her honor).
Photo taken in Forest Park on stolen Atfalati (Tualatin Kalapuya) land.
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