Hi. I'm Melissa—and I think writing is magic.
It doesn't need paint to capture a scene, or a camera to capture a moment.
With its syllables and vowels, its structure and punctuation, it doesn't need a melody to compose music.
It's more influential, more portable across generations, geographies, and cultures than any other medium—and it can stimulate the senses, entirely hands-free.
Great writing can survive on its own.
But when you give it a job—like a poem, a story, a marketing campaign, a screenplay, a letter, even a blog post or a smartphone app—it thrives.
It moves people. Teaches them. It builds empires and records history.
(In my case, it also keeps the lights on.)
That's how I know that great writing is way more than just words—and great writers are way more than just writers.
We're empaths, teachers, journalists, salespeople, editors, poets. We're anthropologists, epistemologists, and armchair psychologists.
