My Writing Journey | by Warren Goldie

Iwas born in Brooklyn, New York, and moved with my family to an outer suburb of Baltimore city, making the cultural shift from a vibrant Seinfeld-esque neighborhood near Flatbush Avenue to a subdivision of identical ranch and split level homes—and schools with real grass baseball diamonds rather than cracked cement playgrounds. Though I left New York as only a second grader, my formative years there bred an open-mindedness, a communality, and intellectual curiosity that I like to think has served me well over the years.

I’ve worked in many industries, gaining an understanding of business, technology, and the arts. I was a screenplay analyst for Hollywood production companies and a writer/editor at the Shoah Foundation, a digital archive of Holocaust survivor testimonies based on the Universal Studios backlot, chaired by its founder, Steven Spielberg. I ghostwrote articles for Spielberg and edited the newsletter, Past Forward, distributed worldwide to a large volunteer staff. My mother, a survivor of Auschwitz herself, contributed her account to the project.

I often do B2B (business-to-business) copywriting and content writing. At the food certifier FoodChain ID, I wrote and produced websites and participated in marketing campaigns that contributed to years of record growth. I’ve written extensively about SaaS (software as a service) and served as a contractor at organizations including K12, U.S. Department of Energy, eFax, Ideal Energy, Voice of America, and numerous others. I was a senior writer at IBM’s go-to marketing agency, Leopard Communications, producing content on highly technical products and services. I’ve “marketed spirituality” at the Omega Institute of Holistic Studies, Interface Foundation, and Maharishi International University, all leaders in mind-body-spirit education.

In B2C (business-to-consumer) marketing copywriting, I was lead copywriter at CyberMedia, whose PC antivirus software dominated an industry. I edited TI Tomorrow, a website that was a finalist for the Smithsonian Innovation award. I’ve written scripts for museum kiosk mini-documentaries at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum. As a creative writer, my novel Waking Maya has garnered many kudos. My play, Warsaw, won festival accolades and received a full production.

My writing journey has traveled on two seemingly dissimilar paths: the first, into the business and education worlds where I work to satisfy client or employer. The second follows the trail of the storyteller seeking to explore and dramatize deeper truths in stories that aim to move, illuminate and inspire. These seemingly unrelated paths can and do inform each other, for I’ve used more than a few fiction writing techniques in my persuasive business writing, and vice versa, too. But, in the end, I think that cross-pollination has been a good thing (as you may discover)…

Please contact me if you’d like to discuss a project. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you and best wishes.

 

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