This is me: who are you?
Hi there. I’m Morwenna Lawson (nee Pearce), most commonly known as Mo.
Lately there’s been a surge of friend requests on LinkedIn and other social media platforms. Great! That’ll be my recent spate of networking kicking into action. It’s not unusual to get such requests with no personal introduction, but I do prefer a calling card, or a line of explanation, and I try to do the same when I’m the requester. A bit of background goes a long way. In case you’ve put in a request and want my potted history, here you go:
As an online writer I produce content for websites. Although this comes under the banner of ‘marketing’, my background is in journalism – chief sub-editing for women’s magazines. These days clients want me to help them write words for their websites: from redoing an About or Home page, to rewriting an entire site. Most of my work seems to be for companies who are in the homes, education, personal development, health & well-being and retail fields, so I’d probably describe myself as a lifestyle writer.
Recently I’ve written articles for people to upload and that’s been super-fun, because it’s aligned to feature writing, something I love and miss. My favourite thing to write is blogs – for other people but also for myself.
I no longer have much brain time for creative writing, but that’s what I do when I can. If there's any time left over I love the alchemy of baking (but I’m rubbish at icing), I like singing to myself as I walk (thank goodness for face masks muffling the sound), enjoy regular canters around the locale, and can’t wait to get back to travelling the world to see friends and family. I’ve been all over south east Asia but there’s so much more to explore and I miss that.
My Dad lives in Cornwall (up the road from the beach in this photo), my sister and I live on either side of Hampstead Heath in north London, and I share an apartment with my husband, our teenager, two annoying cats and as many mice as they can stuff through the cat-flap. That’s probably enough to be getting on with, and now you know me a little better.
Getting anonymous requests is par for the course – that’s how social media works, it’s anonymous by design and there’s a lot to be said for that. But I’d love to know how we’re connected. Did we meet through networking or can you see a shared connection? And if I don’t know you, what do you do and how we can help each other?
You don’t have to say as much as I’ve said here, it would just be good to know a bit more; call it a virtual handshake. Over to you!