Melissa Somerdin

Included are examples of my writing, including blog posts, academic essays, technical documents, websites, biographies, and real estate listings. I have also professionally edited since 2013, but most of it has been in confidential environments. The publicly accessible examples of documents I have edited are included here as well, though.

Portfolio
Miscellaneous
Other Writing and Editing Samples

Some additional samples of my writing/editing and even some minor graphic design work. The writing/editing samples span real estate listings, biographies for realtors' websites, a website for an oral surgeon's practice, and some technical and academic writing about mechanical engineering research.

Publications

Scholar Commons
The Game Debate: Video Games as Innovative Storytelling

A literary analysis written in 2014 that argues for video games being an innovative method of storytelling. It won the PLHC Excellence in Writing Contest in 2015 and was published in the journals Bellerive and The Oswald Review in 2016.

Blog Writing / Online Publishing

Blog for video game fan translation group
Lumina Tales

All other blog posts written by me (Herohom) for Lumina Tales. I also edit everyone else's blog posts before they are published.

Editing Samples

Blog for video game fan translation group
Lumina Tales

Blog for my translation group. I have written all articles by "Herohom," but I have also edited all articles written by the rest of our team.