Steve Peacock
Freelance Creative Writer, Independent Author
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Stirling, StirlingMember since August 31, 2024
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About
A creative and enthusiastic writer who has a passion for strong characterisation and detailed worldbuilding across the full media spectrum.
Experience
Writer, Fallout – Miami: November 2023 – Present
- Writing character dialogue, radio chatter, and lore objects in line with the creative bible.
- Working with other writers to ensure our work connects, tone is maintained, and completed to a professional standard.
- Taking ownership of areas of the game world, character arcs, and championing them.
- Utilising Trello to co-ordinate and track team progress.
- Maintaining the central project wiki and associated spreadsheets.
- Crafting detailed, concise, and enticing dating profiles for a broad variety of clients, using AI where appropriate.
- Adapting, redrafting, and formulating documentation for best practice across the writing department.
- Utilising the Bitrix CRM platform to track tasks and set deadlines.
- Communicating with various departments daily to ensure effective workflow.
- Writing novels, short stories, and screenplays to a publishable standard, achieving over one million Kindle Unlimited page reads and several thousand sales.
- Working alongside editors and designers to ensure the finished work is to the highest professional standard possible.
- Marketing and PR work to increase the visibility of the finished product.
- Collaborating with contractors and employers on varied projects across the media spectrum.
- Quickly assessing documents of various types for errors in grammar, structure, and choice of language.
- Providing concise and effective feedback to ensure clients achieve their best result.
- Effective time management in order to get through as many documents as possible in an efficient manner.
- Character creation, plot development, and overall narrative design.
- Working from early design stages through to release.
- Mentoring and supervising junior members of the writing team, editing their work, and providing constructive feedback.
- Writing coherent and authentic characters for an RPG video game.
- Working with feedback from the Game Editor and tweaking dialogue to their approval in order to meet deadlines.
- Providing creative ideas and brainstorming plotlines and character development ideas with the team working on the same project.
- Article editing/approving final edits for publication.
- Writing reviews and editorials.
- Managing the PR and other related correspondence for the company.
Education
- MA Film Studies – Postgraduate Diploma
- MA Media Writing – Pass with Merit
- BA (hons.) Politics – 2:2
