Writer & Proofreader

Welcome to my website, where I write about how much I love writing. My name is Julian Dominguez, and words have been my forte and my joy for as long as I can remember.

I have found the written word fascinating ever since middle school. I was the kid who’d read Sergio Aragones’ Groo the Wanderer comics, pausing to copy particularly inspirational quotes on a legal pad I pulled off my dad’s desk. In high school, I wrote poetry to harness my feelings and wrote for the school newspaper in search of truth. My favorite lesson learned at that time: the best way to proofread for spelling is to read your copy backward.

I continued writing for The Beacon at Florida International University while working toward my Bachelor’s in Print Journalism. I enjoyed talking with new people, then staying up all night to write and re-write concise and accurate copy. It was then I learned that there are no true synonyms, the most powerful word in any language is “why,” and that I was actually a good writer. I don’t usually feel comfortable admitting I’m good at a thing, but I was sure about my ability to write. Mostly because I loved writing so much. Still do.

I’ve done most kinds of writing throughout my career. Newspaper, social media, technical, B2B, advertising, SEO, prose, website, etc. I love words (the message), and I love people (the audience). Connect the two, and that’s all writing well is, across any platform. Taking your idea and making sure it effectively reaches the people you want to share that idea with.

I also proofread well and enjoy it immensely. Proofreading feels like carving a statue. The work of art is there, and there’s a calming catharsis in chipping away at spelling errors and superfluous fluff to get to the meat and potatoes of what we’re trying to say. And don’t worry if all the errors aren’t caught. We catch 98% of them. You’d think computers are better at it than we are, but emotion, context, subtext, tone, subtleties, and intent elude the best spell checkers. We’re human, and so is our language. It breathes, evolves, grows, and often finds its way best through trial and error.

In my early twenties, I would tell myself, “if I know the rules of writing, I can properly break the rules of writing.” Sure, a little full of myself, but I like where that idea took me when I left it behind. I know the rules of my craft, and I aim to see past them. Focus on audiences. There is where we exist … in the grey. Where rules don’t give us answers. We need to trust our instincts because people aren’t equations (though we’re sometimes algorithms). People are the best stories. Like a professor who changed my life once said, “sometimes the story isn’t the celebrity guest. It’s the crowds of people in standing room only.”