We work with you or without you to craft the perfect messaging.
Collaborate or send us off to make magic.
Writers should never work for free but some of us are thriftier than others. Ask about our highly reasonable rates.
Fast, friendly service backed by years of experience. You can have it fast, cheap and good!
Don’t waste time and energy rewriting terrible copy. Let us get it right the first time or do the editing for you.
Breakfast Culture inspires organizations to achieve their strategic goals and generate revenue by helping them cultivate diverse and inclusive workplace cultures
Canada’s non-profit online magazine and community platform covering LGBTQ2S+ culture, politics, relationships and health
Before managing the legendary Glad Day Bookshop, alphabet street’s founder spent years editing fab magazine and writing for various outlets. Check out his work here!
We’ve helped neighbours, small businesses and non-profit organizations and corporations look their best on paper and screen. From social media posts to full annual reports and everything in between, we offer you fast, reliable and precise communications.
For three consecutive years, my team at North York Harvest worked with scott on our Annual Report. He turned briefing notes into a complex yet concise narrative about the challenges of combating food insecurity in Canada. We were impressed at how he went the extra mile in doing additional research to get our message across. He was professional, adaptable and always delivered on time. We look forward to working with him at alphabet street on future projects.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, I supported the Ontario Ministry of Health in developing the contact training response and managing operations. I needed smart, responsive, humane people and scott’s abilities as a communicator stood out. Not only was he able to process the new health information that was changing daily, but more importantly, could explain it all clearly to new people as well. Throughout those first two waves of the pandemic, he was an essential member of Ontario’s team I could rely on.
After launching my own marketing consultancy, I asked scott to come on board as a writer, editor and JEDI consultant. I knew his writing skills were ideal for our DEI blog The Secret Sauce but I also knew he had the empathy and knowledge of the broader issues that would make him a good fit for Breakfast Culture. He’s been a fantastic advisor, written terrific pieces for the website and also polished my own work and others, making our whole team look great!
Our service is aimed in particular at self-employed, small entrepreneurs and medium-sized companies who need high-quality messaging but lack the time or employee capacity. We focus on the text so you can keep your eyes on the big picture.
Each is a step in the process. After the writing period of getting ideas down on paper, editing is the task of making sure those ideas are organized, well-defined and clearly communicated, then comes the copyediting and proofreading to eliminate technical mistakes. We can do any of these steps or all three; it's like having your car washed, dried and polished.
Tone is completely up to you. Check out our portfolio and you’ll see that scott’s style is generally an accessible “friendly yet authoritative” vibe but the writing can be more formal or less, depending on the needs of our clients.
While it varies depending on the difficulty on the material (a press release can be composed a lot faster than a technical manual), a decent rule-of-thumb for researched writing is about 200 words an hour. As with most things, however, a negotiated timeframe in advance always leads to the best results.
Like a lot of workers, writers are being told we’re about to replaced en masse with robots but we're not stressing. Generative AI is still a long way away from producing anything resembling any quality. Sure, a drive-thru cheeseburger will fill the void but fast food hasn’t eliminated chefs. Why spend an hour (or more!) fussing with AI prompts giving you plagiarized bafflegab when we have clever humans right here doing better work? Your clients will notice the difference.
