"David Heintzelman is a smart, quick, witty and very talented copywriter. But he should take better pictures if he's going to use them on his site." - Mom
ABOUT
The first time I was told I should write for a living I was going to a Catholic grade school in IL and I had turned in a limerick that made the priest squirt lunch milk from his nose. I took that piece of advice pretty seriously, not realizing it's just the sort of thing you tell a kid off-hand. Anyway, after some hard luck, my family moved us to WA where we lived pretty rough my first couple years of high school. I escaped into books. I must have read a hundred of them. This was my educational foundation, more so than the classroom. During this time I played sports year round, worked part time, and did all the normal high school stuff, while quietly getting mostly A's. I was not the top of my class, but I did manage to get the highest SAT scores in my graduating class, and at the time, the highest scores in the history of my small school. That and my essay won me a full academic scholarship to Gonzaga University.
There I was adrift until my sophomore year when I heard about this thing called a copywriter. Milk the priest had squirted out of his nose came back to me in a gross flash and I decided then and there that this was the path for me. I transferred to UNLV and eventually graduated with an A average and a Bachelor's of Communications, emphasis on Advertising, and a Minor in Anthropology. I started freelancing immediately, and the rest of the story is in my resume and here on this website.
The first time I was told I should write for a living I was going to a Catholic grade school in IL and I had turned in a limerick that made the priest squirt lunch milk from his nose. I took that piece of advice pretty seriously, not realizing it's just the sort of thing you tell a kid off-hand. Anyway, after some hard luck, my family moved us to WA where we lived pretty rough my first couple years of high school. I escaped into books. I must have read a hundred of them. This was my educational foundation, more so than the classroom. During this time I played sports year round, worked part time, and did all the normal high school stuff, while quietly getting mostly A's. I was not the top of my class, but I did manage to get the highest SAT scores in my graduating class, and at the time, the highest scores in the history of my small school. That and my essay won me a full academic scholarship to Gonzaga University.
There I was adrift until my sophomore year when I heard about this thing called a copywriter. Milk the priest had squirted out of his nose came back to me in a gross flash and I decided then and there that this was the path for me. I transferred to UNLV and eventually graduated with an A average and a Bachelor's of Communications, emphasis on Advertising, and a Minor in Anthropology. I started freelancing immediately, and the rest of the story is in my resume and here on this website.