My name is Kyle Vanderneut, although I use my middle name for my pen name: Kyle Garret.

I’m a writer.

Anyone can write, but not everyone can write well. There’s a limit to how much the average person writes in their lifetime and so they only need to know the baseline when it comes to writing. One of the fastest, easiest ways to stand out from the crowd is by being able to write well.

I’ve been writing since elementary school, which was much longer ago than I care to think about. I mainly wrote stories featuring characters from my favorite comic books. As I got older, I came up with my own characters. As I got older still, I branched out from superheroes and fantasy. Writing meant limitless possibilities and I wanted to embrace them all.

My senior year of high school, I won a state-wide award for a short story I wrote. That was the small glimmer of hope I needed to convince myself that writing was my path.

I got into every college I applied to because they all asked for essays and that was like tossing a slow pitch across the center of the plate for me. After my freshman year, I decided to transfer schools. My new school, Ohio University, had limited space. They needed to see something other than my transcripts. They asked me for an essay.

I got in.

I got my bachelor’s degree in English and, although I had minored in creative writing, I decided that I needed to learn more. I had to write more essays. But this time, the bar was set particularly high, as I was writing to get into writing programs.

I got my master’s degree in Creative Writing. At the same time, I also taught Freshman Composition, the introductory English class.

I took a class for graduate students who were teaching. We were tasked with moving our students from high school writing to college writing, which is a big step. No longer were they writing for a test; they were writing for a variety of teachers who all had different concepts of what made a good paper.

After graduate school, I had a few things published: short stories, an essay, a book.

Eventually I began doing some freelance writing for search engine optimization. It was the first time I’d ever even heard of such a thing, but it was an interesting way to apply my writing skills.

The next thing I knew, it had been 12 years and I’d worked my way up to director level in SEO. For as much as I enjoyed those years, I always wanted to get back to doing more writing for myself. I also missed sharing what I know with others.

Great writing can make anything better. It can be the key to success. But it’s not easy.

Let me share the knowledge that decades of experience and two degrees have brought me.

Let me help you write.