Historical Storytelling Scriptwriter | Serious History – $500-$1,000 Per Project
We take stories from history and tell them in a way that makes them accessible to modern-day audiences.
I’m looking to hire an experienced scriptwriter who can write in my voice so closely that the scripts are indistinguishable from those I normally produce.
Ideal Candidate
You should be able to reverse engineer my scripts and write them with the same tone, pacing and style. The audience should not be able to tell the script was written by someone else.
You should love storytelling and be able to take complicated stories from history and tell them in a conversational tone in a way that humanizes historical figures for a modern audience.
Job Requirements
- Proven ability to write in another creator’s voice (ghostwriting, mimicry, tone matching)
- Can conduct your own research on topics to fully understand the story you are telling
- Strong narrative instincts: suspense, structure, character empathy
- Excellent historical storytelling skills using things like hero’s journey, story circle, save the cat, etc
- Comfortable with sources, dates, battle descriptions, political context, etc.
- Understand youtube retention hooks and how to use them
- Willingness to iterate to get the voice perfect
- Can write in conversational American gen z / millennial voice