Dan Hobbes Writing

Dan Hobbes Writing https://danhobbeswriting.com Dan Hobbes Writing Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:37:44 +0000 https://danhobbeswriting.com en About https://danhobbeswriting.com/About Thu, 24 Oct 2019 22:37:15 +0000 Dan Hobbes Writing https://danhobbeswriting.com/About Hello again. My name is Dan and I’m a writer. It’s not just a profession, it’s who I am. Yes, that line is corny and wildly overused. However, it is very accurate and there’s no better way to say it. I checked. Writing is how I relate to the world. It’s how I cope with the onslaught of joy and pain that comes along with living. Love, panic attacks, water slides, depression, suicide, burritos: all of these things have etched an indelible mark on my life and writing is how I’ve managed to make all of it make sense. Sure, as a kid I wanted nothing other than to be Michael Jordan and nobody was going to tell me I was too short or too white. I shot jumpers every night until I couldn’t lift my arms, I developed a maniacal work ethic, and eventually I earned a walk-on spot on the University of San Francisco basketball team. It’s not Chapel Hill but it’s still Division 1, baby. A serious back injury ended my playing career, but another path soon presented itself: I had been writing the whole time. I kept journals; I wrote terrible song lyrics; I wrote stories that delighted my family and pretentious short films that didn’t amount to much but had a few decent jokes nonetheless. Aside from a few brief hospital stays and some travel related mishaps, I have written something every single day of my life since I was in middle school. I will continue to do so until I die and there’s nothing you can do to stop me.I’ve written professionally since 2011: mostly for an ad agency in Santa Monica, and as a freelance copywriter for small businesses and not-so-small businesses as well. I have also written a screenplay, of which I’m very proud. Choosing to pursue this as a career was less of a business decision and more of a desperate attempt to try and capatilize on my only marketable skill. I couldn’t be happier with my choice.  It took about fifteen minutes of scrolling to find a thumb nail of color. Step your diversity game up, stock photo thumb model casting directors.  Screenplay https://danhobbeswriting.com/Screenplay Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:37:44 +0000 Dan Hobbes Writing https://danhobbeswriting.com/Screenplay MY SCREENPLAY: What I Carry With Me Horror-Comedy Liz, a writer in her 30’s who is recovering from a deep emotional trauma, discovers she is being haunted by a terrifying supernatural entity with a mysterious connection to her past, who she dubs the Yellow-Eyed Man, because he has creepy yellow eyes and is a man. She decides to enlist the services of two private investigators: Mr. Davdidson, a man with paranormal abilities, and his partner Charlie, a woman who is voluntarily possessed by the spirit of legendary gunslinger and part-time dentist Doc Holliday. Even with their unusual help, Liz must use every ounce of her inner strength to try and stop the evil presence before it drags her to the other side. Below is a 10 page excerpt of the screenplay. It is utterly unrepresented and so am I. If you’d like to read the whole thing, please contact me. What I Carry With Me excerpt Copywriting https://danhobbeswriting.com/Copywriting Thu, 24 Oct 2019 22:37:16 +0000 Dan Hobbes Writing https://danhobbeswriting.com/Copywriting COPYWRITING: Hard seltzer! It’s like seltzer, but it gets you drunk. What’s not to love? And Passion Tree Hard Seltzer has the added benefit of being a cool company that’s actually trying to do some good in the world. I’ve been writing content for them since 2021, so check out their Instagram and website. Just FYI, my favorite flavor is guava. I find it very refreshing.  <img width="2500" height="1842" width_o="2500" height_o="1842" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e91c95aaab5521bb6ef1139ee48cf880d158d1df8a8b3cf9362f4cffcd98541/cc5bfd_ba47f274c29647a1a811e87410fb215d_mv2.jpg" data-mid="113678787" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e91c95aaab5521bb6ef1139ee48cf880d158d1df8a8b3cf9362f4cffcd98541/cc5bfd_ba47f274c29647a1a811e87410fb215d_mv2.jpg" /> Adgreetz uses an innovative platform: hyper-personalization. Celebrities and spokespeople in their ads speak directly to the cunsumer, by name, and often include personal details. This creates a unique challenge for copywriters, like me, the guy who wrote the stuff below. But it also produces some incredibly engaging content:   All above spots created and produced by Adgreetz So, occaisonally Anderson Cooper or somebody will invite on a big time lawyer as a legal expert to explain to us lay people the intracicies of a juicy celebrity trial. That person is often Jeffrey W. Steinberger. That’s how I explained it to my mom when I wrote for attorney Steinberger’s website and that’s how I’m explaining it here:  <img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55fd33fe0804a82aa153248e2f8668c2ef1101f5eef660b9f0aae9417c20882d/Jeffrey-W.-Steinberger---Personal-Injury-Lawyer--2-page-0.jpg" data-mid="55356349" border="0" data-scale="42" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55fd33fe0804a82aa153248e2f8668c2ef1101f5eef660b9f0aae9417c20882d/Jeffrey-W.-Steinberger---Personal-Injury-Lawyer--2-page-0.jpg" /><img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0efc19785984e0e15fcf2beadbb3cd431c911e1c27bb98bcda8dd88c01bf0006/Jeffrey-W.-Steinberger---Personal-Injury-Lawyer---Celebrity-Attorney---TV-Legal-Analyst-and-Commentator---Former-Judge-Pro-Tem-page-1.jpg" data-mid="55356348" border="0" data-scale="43" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0efc19785984e0e15fcf2beadbb3cd431c911e1c27bb98bcda8dd88c01bf0006/Jeffrey-W.-Steinberger---Personal-Injury-Lawyer---Celebrity-Attorney---TV-Legal-Analyst-and-Commentator---Former-Judge-Pro-Tem-page-1.jpg" /> Thumb nails... in the thumbnail index. It plays. You know it plays.   Accolades & Endorsements https://danhobbeswriting.com/Accolades-Endorsements Thu, 24 Oct 2019 22:37:16 +0000 Dan Hobbes Writing https://danhobbeswriting.com/Accolades-Endorsements Accolades & Endorsements* 2012: Wrote award winning content for Mike Tyson and Princess Ariel. Both were incredibly polite to the whole cast and crew.  2013: Revealed to be #37 of Jay Z’s “99 Problems”.  2014: Wrote widely sold eCards starring Reba McEntire and Pau Gasol. One of them is way shorter than you think.  2015: Casually chatted with Catherine O’Hara in an elevator and elicited a chuckle. Probably. Could also have been a small cough.  2016: Wrote award winning content for Kraft and Toyota. Guess who provided the better lunch spread at the pitch meeting. 2017: Given the “Key to the City”. Not sure which city. Haven’t tried all the locks yet.  2018: Wrote widely sold eCards starring MMA legends Randy Couture and Bas Rutten. Teddy Bears, both of them.  2019: Still not sure which city.  2020: Did not die or drink hand sanitizer.  2021: Once again did not die. Also began writing for Passion Tree Hard Seltzer. 2022: Cut it a little close this time, but managed not to die again. Also: 52,000+ cases of hard seltzer sold, and 52,000+ trees planted for Passion Tree in under two years.  2023: Still loading... ----------------------------------------------------------- “I only wish I could write just one thing that was simultaneously timeless, prescient, and historically significant, the way that Dan does every single day.”  -Lin-Manuel Miranda “His prose reminds me of a young me, except that he is far more ruggedly handsome, and he has better facial hair, and he faces danger with greater bravery, which is to say that he does not flinch in the face of catastrophe.”  -Ghost of Ernest Hemingway “Are you still watching ‘Parks and Recreation’?”  -Netflix “Once again, he will not publicly declare you his ‘new bestie’, not even just once, not even as a joke. Please stop calling. How did you even get this number?” -Assistant to LeBron James *All quotes are clearly 100% fake. Also, I did not actually receive the key to any city, as far as I know. Also, I am not on Jay-Z’s list of 99 problems, or any other known list of Jay-Z’s. But I really did talk to Catherine O’Hara in an elevator once.  Thumbnails... thumb nails. This is top notch pun work happening right in front of you.  Home https://danhobbeswriting.com/Home Thu, 24 Oct 2019 22:37:16 +0000 Dan Hobbes Writing https://danhobbeswriting.com/Home Hi, Please take a few seconds to enjoy the visual pun below. Thank you.                      -Dan Hobbes dhobbeswriting@gmail.com