Roxanne is a creative writer and developmental editor with six years of experience in the film and book industry.
Her latest work has been as a supporting writer and creative associate for the upcoming film Tidepools
and creating the art book Naked is Normal, which is featured in indie bookstores and magazine stalls all over the world (as a conscious/ethical decision not to use Amazon).
Roxanne delights in imaginative adventure. This meant leaving her small hometown in America's Northeast to travel the world as a nomad/hitchiker/couchsurfer/vagabond for the last eight years. She's lived out of one suitcase in voluntary simplicity; her wealth is immaterial.
Living imaginatively also meant being a naturist on an island in a community of interdisciplinary artists. It meant working in the psychedelic healing sphere. It meant teaching English to refugees and meditating in monasteries.
Living wholeheartedly is the primary art, and writing emerges from doing it honestly.
About Roxanne
Offerings
Story & Concept Development
You have something to say, but the main challenge is saying it precisely. Your mind has competing ideas, and the pressure of choosing what matters most to you. Roxanne works to find the through-line in a narrative that is compelling and honest through a series of in-depth interviews and reviewing your writing side by side to find the structure that fits you best.
Developmental Editing
Your manuscript is partially written or finished. Now it needs to be seen clearly by eyes that are not yours. Every writer knows how hard it is to see their piece objectively after living inside it for so long. Roxanne offers comprehensive edits and detailed feedback for writers who are stuck and need to know exactly what isn't working and why.
Creative Coaching & Writing Support
Writing can be isolating and lonely, as much as it is dreamy and soul-nourishing. An idea arrives through imagination with miraculous force, and at some point, it seems to disappear. Roxanne gives accountability and steady companionship that keeps you moving from a concept through to a finished draft. For five years, she's hosted creative writing workshops in Thailand, rooted in inquiry and the belief that your life and its specificities are where the real magic unfolds.
Screenwriting
Script notes and story development with the close, unhurried attention of a literary editor to strengthen the work. Roxanne also supports directors who arrive with a specific idea to develop—an image, a feeling, a story, that hasn't found its true shape, and helps find the right words that become a screenplay.
