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📌 TL;DR: I’m an editor. I’m accepting new clients. I edit… words and stuff. Sentences. Paragraphs. Even whole essays!
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🖊️ I’m Danica Swanson (aka Black Stone Wordsmith), a senior-level pro editor and small business owner with 10+ years of freelance experience, including 2+ years in blockchain tech serving DAOs and DeFi clients.
Availability
- UPDATE: As of April 2024 I’ve taken my freelance editorial services off the market to concentrate on a project launch. I’m still open to working with former clients and people I’ve opened negotiations with before, but I’m not taking on any new clients at this time. I’m leaving this page intact for reference.
Services
- I provide copy editing and editorial consulting services for select web3 projects.
- I’ve also served as senior editor for Starbased, a crypto-native media agency that builds managed web3 community media hubs.
- Availability inquiries for media hubs (web dev, copywriting, call recordings/summaries, and/or audiograms) are routed to the Starbased editor-in-chief.
Background Basics
- My experience as a copy editor spans 10+ years with academic and corporate clients, including 2+ years in web3 serving DAOs in blockchain art and DeFi.
- I hold baccalaureate degrees in three disciplines: psychology, philosophy (including graduate work in systems philosophy), and accounting.
- My previous published work includes former newsletters on Patreon (2015-2017) and Substack (2018-2023).
- Compared to the average blockchain tech startup founder, I consider myself nontechnical. But as a tech early adopter and hobbyist who’s been online since 1993 and once completed a web dev bootcamp, my tech skills probably exceed those of the average editor.
Open Source Projects
- Web3 Editorial Style Guide - A well-received project I built from scratch for Starbased.
- Web3 Editorial Wiki Project - My solo project to foster an emergent pattern language for web3 editorial media teams. Currently on hold, but still on the roadmap. Vision:
- Help potential clients find pro editors and understand what they do.
- Help editorial teams and clients allocate time and attention more effectively.
- “Show our work”: make editorial work more visible in web3 spaces.
- Forms of Incubation - A nascent writing project I launched on Paragraph to explain creative processes in an open source fashion, especially in the context of scenius (the collective form of genius) on Farcaster.
Why Work With Me?
- Five-star service. Clients trust and rely on me for:
- Optimal care, advanced skill, and thorough attention to detail.
- Consistent, timely delivery of top-notch finished work according to spec.