Marian Sayer
Writing, Editing, and Clarity
Clear language builds understanding. I’ll help you get there.
Editing and writing services to make sure you say what you mean, with confidence and clarity.
For academics, businesses, creative writers, students, and anyone with a pile of words, or something to say, that would benefit from a separate pair of eyes.
For over 10 years I have been helping academics, business owners, creative writers, individuals, grad students, and brands with their words. From copyediting, proof reading, social media content writing, thesis editing, journal review prep, and creative writing plot technique and more, if you want to write it, or have written it and want to improve it, that’s where I can help. With efficiency, clarity of your tone, and an ability to adapt to your brand voice and the messaging goals you have, I’ll ensure we hit the mark.
Additionally, I hold an Master’s in Library and Information Sciences from San Jose State University (2019), a BA in English from Southern Virginia University (2009), completed the Comprehensive Copywriter’s Academy (2025), co-lead and presented a qualitative research project on Paternal PPD to the WPA (2020), worked as a content editor for the SJSU Student Research Journal (2020-2021), as a writing contest judge (2018-2025), and am currently employed as the Cataloging Librarian for Stanislaus County’s Public Library System.
Currently, I am writing a newsletter to explore and expand on the principles of self love, radical honesty, and deep personal work that helped me change my life in the past 5 years. If you’d like to join me at In Chiaroscuro on Substack I would love to have you. I write about finding myself after religious, childhood, and intense relationship traumas, and how I’m discovering and creating a life of joy and intentional delight collection when those are not things I was taught how to do. If you’d like a peek at what that work is about please go here to explore the 110 specific things I did that helped me save my own life.
As always, thank you for being here. Whether we can connect over words, sentence structure, citation formatting, or the personal wins you’re making along our human journey, I’m so glad to have opportunity to share space and am eager to get started in helping your journey gain all the clarity you need and want.