Starting out her copy career in the architectural industry, AJ West has a decade of copywriting under her belt for a variety of mass media vehicles including magazines, websites, press kits, press releases, newsletters and requests for proposals. AJ has developed technical copy for company manuals that steer communication standards and business practices such as project reports, construction documents, corporate disclaimers, presentations and training materials. AJ West holds an Associate Degree from Valencia Community College.

She has earned certificates in Technical and Creative Writing from Valencia Community College. Her articles have been published for the Talent Speaks webzine which focuses on Arts & Entertainment. She is a featured writing talent for her poetry on the Talent Database Network and has freelanced for well-known musicians and artists all over the Orlando area creating content for websites and producing high-quality biographies.

AJ is influenced and inspired by Erica Jong, Isabelle Allende, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Pablo Neruda, E.E. Cummings, D.H. Lawrence and her intuition to write the ugly truth mixed with the gift of spinning any topic into a fine tapestry of fluid content.

My passion is ...

People

I know too much about ...

Music and Food

My parents always told me ...

I should marry a rich man

My childhood ambition ...

To be a psychologist

My favorite memory ...

Is dancing during my childhood

Why I write ...

It is all I have ever wanted to do

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Everyone and everything around me

Sports & Recreation > Sports & Recreation (Other) Skateboarding Legends: Jim Phillips

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Skateboarding is an American pastime that every generation rediscovers for its rebellious and colorful nature. Kids locked inside their own urban jungles without access to the waves, flood the hundreds of business parks to hone their dangerous skills on concrete rails and steps or sneak into the empty community pools to use the concrete walls for speed.

Skateboarding was discovered in the 1950's and went mainstream by the mid 1960's. Backed by the trend of beach music by groups such as The Beach Boys, The Ventures and Frankie Valli, the Californian surfer became the catalyst for this pop...

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