Judith Arnold – Author Coach, Book Editor, and Memoir Ghostwriter

You may wonder where the name WordServings came from.

Great question.

It’s the same one I had when I came up with it. Like most other things in my neurodivergent life, it popped into my head seemingly out of thin air. Leaving me to reverse-engineer its genesis.

What I discovered was not only the origin of the name I chose for my business, but the entirety of my ability with words.

A universe on the head of a pin, so to speak.

• First, the sound. The repeated “er” (assonance for the technically minded) across the two words is pleasing to the ear and thus memorable. A business name should be memorable. Check.
• Second, my entire livelihood is based on helping, or serving, others and their words. A business name should indicate the type of business. Check.
• Third, compression, or saying more with less, aka subtext. Serving also means giving food, and a serving is a portion of something, hopefully tasty. A portion of writing, whether it be a one-word business name, a 60,000-word memoir or a 100,000-word novel, should give the reader just enough and no more, so they feel. CHECK!

This is the stuff that makes my writerly brain go whee! and do the cancan.

Right, back to business.

MY business is to serve YOUR words to the best of my ability whether I’m helping you get your words on the page, editing what you’ve written, or doing the writing. That’s what an author coach, editor, and memoir ghostwriter does.

This is my jam because I know what it’s like to become a withered husk of myself when faced with a specific writing task – usually when forced to write about me, like on an About page.

Glares at About page.

But it can happen anywhere or anywhen.

I also know what it’s like to write something I’m proud of in a voice that’s very much my own, and then have some well-meaning individual “correct” it until it’s also nothing but a withered husk, edges curled and crispy.

Knowing these things, I bend over backwards (probably not while also doing the cancan) to ensure that YOUR authorial voice is respected from start to finish. And, if you haven’t found it yet, I can help with that too.

As Guy Boyd, author of the upcoming Widowmaker to Warrior, says,

“Judith’s comments and suggestions helped me tighten my writing, remove repetition, sharpen key messages, and make certain passages hit harder emotionally. Again and again, I found myself thinking, ‘Yes, that’s exactly what I was trying to say.’”

Let’s chat about your writing, and how I can help you. Please click the button below (you’ll make it very happy) or email me at hello@wordservings.com.

I’d love to hear from you.