About Me
Crafting Excellence in Words
Welcome. I'm Jonathan Rintels, and I can help your writing. I’ve been a writer my entire adult life. In 1982, after an unfulfilling seven months as a lawyer in Washington D.C., I sold my first screenplay, moved to Los Angeles, became a member of the Writers Guild of America, and began a professional writing career that continues to this day. I love all aspects of writing – plotting, editing, crafting a crisp piece of dialogue, weaving a persuasive argument, collaborating with a partner.
In addition to my own writing, I teach writing classes to adults and teens, and consult with clients who want help telling their stories. Most of these stories deserve telling; they will enlighten and entertain. But they usually need that professional assist – ghostwriting, rewriting, editing, critiquing, brainstorming, mentoring, script doctoring, whatever – to make them come alive.
Clients find me to be a gentle soul, but also a straight shooter. I don’t waste their time or money telling them what they want or hope to hear. Instead, I try to tell them what they need to hear and how much work will be involved. That’s the only way to take the work to that higher level where the client can proudly say, with no worries about the quality of the writing, “This is my story, and it's terrific.”
My Experience
An Ongoing Journey
Movies
In 1982, I sold my first screenplay to Hollywood, The Town Bully. Six years later, ABC-TV finally produced and aired it. I continue writing for film and television. My produced work includes nine movies for television.
Series Television -- Law & Order
I am one of the few freelance writers to pen an episode of Law & Order. Knock Off was the highest rated episode of L&O that season.
Lifemobile
Based on my own adventures with my son, Lifemobile is a novel about a special boy who bonds with a special car, changing the boy’s world forever.
Lifemobile has 51 reviews and a 5 Star rating on Amazon. To purchase an autographed copy of Lifemobile for the special price of $10 with free shipping (cover price $16), click here.
Center for Creative Voices in Media
In 2002, I put my legal training to work and founded the Center for Creative Voices in Media, a nonprofit 501(c)3, to educate policymakers and the public on the ways policy decisions in Washington impact writers and other creative artists. My work for the Center included writing policy papers, research reports, speeches, letters to the editor, regulatory filings – it’s a different kind of writing, and I really enjoy it. I also enjoy that we make a difference.
