SplendidlySaid, home of Dallas writer/editor, Elaine Rogers

Russia’s influence in America has been an unhappy topic in recent months, but on a more positive note, it’s always a delight to witness the grandeur and gravity-defying grace of world-class ballerinas with dance troupes like The Moscow Ballet and others who annually tour the U.S. November through December, bringing the yuletide season’s ultimate spectacle, more »

For a D HOME profile in the March/April 2016 issue, Elaine had the pleasure of visiting with Dallas interior designer Mike Mousel and his happy client, Pratiksha Rigley, who called him for help when she couldn’t make her lovely 6,000-square-foot Plano manse feel like home. “I really liked the house,” Pratiksha says, “but in every room, more »

Plenty of company websites are barely placeholders on the information highway, with sterile, ho-hum content and undeveloped, easy-to-forget pages. Unless you tell folks something special or impressive about your business, you simply won’t connect with your customers the way you want to. Visitors to your site will click through —  and move away — faster more »

To get a sense of the writing talent behind SplendidlySaid’s editorial offerings, take a gander at a sampling of published magazine features and splendid stories gathered through the years. Elaine Rogers of SplendidlySaid has been writing by-lined stories in newspapers and magazines for more than twenty years, so you could spend HOURS scanning the multitude of  design, parenting, business more »

Why waste your time talking in circles or saying a whole lotta nothing? If your idea of writing means jotting down a few keywords and bullet points and hoping they’ll hit a random target, it’s probably time to trust your text to someone who write for a living and LOVES IT. Enlist the editorial expertise of SplendidlySaid’s Elaine Rogers more »

Time to give that dull company newsletter a facelift and fill that pricey-but-undeveloped website with powerful prose that sets profits soaring. We’ll help you find the words  that take flight. As lifelong reporters and writers, we specialize in cutting through the crud and sorting through the mental clutter to cultivate and create the stories that give your customers, more »

Editors always reserve the right to play favorites, so check out a recent “Editor’s Pick” for a tale-that-needed-telling business profile. Sometimes it’s the topic itself, or the interviewer and interviewee “just click;” other times, that mystic writing fairy shows up and the words flow like they’re writing themselves. That’s what happened when SplendidlySaid’s Elaine Rogers crawled more »

If your web pages are full of colorless content that doesn’t touch customers or inspire visitors to linger and learn, your brand needs a TLC infusion from SplendidlySaid. With a MeaningfulMessaging program, features editor Elaine Rogers “tinkers on the text” to repair  and rejuvenate lackluster content, develop articles that engage and develop some editorial strategies to more »

Specializing in making you look good, grammar guru Elaine Rogers of SplendidlySaid runs a two-tiered proofreading & editing program that covers all the bases of our client’s basic proofreading and substantial editing needs. This PerfectlyProofed proofreading service provides that final and all-important finishing touch that comes from having an experienced set of expert eyes to check (and re-check) your corporate more »

SOME SPLENDID SITES Share a few grammarian giggles by checking our favorite sites. Time spent with these folks beats a brainless bout of Angry Birds EVERY time. A WAY WITH WORDS A guilt-free pleasure you can hear on NPR, this radio program from linguistic specialists Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett of waywordradio.org offers a steady supply more »