Brian M. Wise
Technical Communication, Editing and Content Production; Professional Loudmouth and Heckler

Infinite Simians

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Us Write Pretty.

Infinite Simians was founded on the idea that there are things people are often very, very good at doing, but in general, people do who are highly intelligent, creative, skilled marketing and development people do not spend much time worrying about how the adverbs and adjectives, dangling participles and technical communication all fit together. I'm here to make that jump between technical information and technical understanding.

Infinite Simians offers full-scale writing and communications development projects. We are currently accepting RFQs for editing, short white papers, readability passes, simpified English editing and writing projects, as well as short-term journalism and research articles. Press releases, story outlines and information packets, manuals and styleguides may be considered on a contingency basis.

What do we sound like? What do YOU sound like?

Informal, formal, hip, hick, chick, lit, high, low, punk, schmoe, indie, artsy, funny, witty, wry, dry or provocatively juxtaposed, we can write it or give you the voice you want for the audience you want to talk to most.

Infinite Simians has experience with public utility documentation, technical journalism, product manuals, software, hardware, technical proposals, business proposals, and even just hitting the F7 key for you. Not a writer? Somewhere, there's a monkey just waiting for you to give him a banana. That's what we do. Hand us the bananas, and you'll get crisp, clean, professional documentation, marketing writing, and editing help. We'll write and edit anything, from web services competitions to web sites to high-end technical manuals for systems and processes. Or even edit your Great American Novel.

Viva Evolution!

Take your concepts and develop them into concise information flows that allow your ideas to come across clearly. Can't do it? Hire a writer monkey.

I've experience writing English as a Second Language Standard, Chicago Manual of Style, Microsoft Styleguide, MilSpec, ATA 2200, and can develop the manuals for your product or vision with a professional level of attention and detail. Or, I can write a communication plan for you, your business, and your future.

Document Archival Systems? Done. Redundant archival for your business documents? Got that too. Want to self-publish a short run of books to float to publishers? On it. If it's written, we can help. And we don't even make you go to the Home Despot for it.

I have a professional network of independent writers and editors who specialize in the freelance work I do, and share it. If I cannot help you, I'll always pass your information on to someone who might.

I can also write your blog for you, ghost-write your introductions, scan emails, play Grammar Hound to your Writing Fox, and get you relevant quickly. Sometimes the most successful small business owner can't type without using two fingers and staring at the keyboard; or you're wondering how to take your documents and templates to the next level.

Don't waste time or effort when you have an army of writer monkeys at your disposal. Literally.

I also work on a noncompetition clause, which means that your product, and only yours, is what I will work on or revise during our time together. If I cannot work on your project due to a conflict of interest, I notify you immediately. I also provide revision service to documents, as well as archival services, and am able to set up document control systems and information workflow processes.

Current projects include editing a first-time educational work of nonfiction, developing safety and health manuals for small metropolitain water quality consultancy firms, nonprofit organization procedural writing, isometric component repair manuals and grant applications.

Free Verse I also write, edit, and read fiction, nonfiction, and personal essays. Unfortunately for the poets, my ear is tuned to Yeats and Silverstein, and like a drunken Irish calliope tender, have gotten eternally stuck in their sparkly rhythms with only forays into the moors of Robbie Burns to snap me out of it.

I am also Googled, cited, quoted, plagarized, and recorded with astonishing frequency these days, though not for the above projects, and have the dubious distinction of claiming fifteen years of arguing with people on the Internet.

Currently accepting bids and requests for quotes for writing gigs or positions with small to medium-sized tech companies, including but not limited to software, web services, aerospace and product services companies. Also accepting editing contracts and web development writing contracts.

University of Oregon, School of Communications, Journalism and Computer Science minor, with focii in Political Advertising Theory, Mass Media, and Information Science.

Twelve years experience working in technical communication for Pacific Rim clients in software, aerospace, manufacturing and electrical hardware components, with empahsis on localization and translation services and manual design, process, procedure, and legacy applications and communications. Experience in FAA-approved interior modification specification, avionics, specialized software, and custom applications. Published professional article ghost-writer, blogger, and editor for content. Herder of cats and professional enabler, project manager and experienced editor-in-chief. Also, known as the ex-boyfriend who once tried to correct a government sign with spraypaint and/or Sharpie to not just one, but two separate (yet equally patient) women.