Inkos (/’ɪŋk-ōs/)
noun, plural: inkoi
the persuasive appeal of stories written in ink.
First Known Use: 2022
Stories have the power to persuade. At Inkos, we spill ink into a story that matters: yours.
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Mission
Vision
To compose cohesive, compelling messaging true to the client’s ethos and guide the collaboration wherever the scope of goals requires.
Women-owned and women-supported businesses gaining reputation and growing outreach through strategic storytelling.
I conducted collaborative consulting sessions that resembled those I led in the writing center. Soon, I became connected with local and small businesses, nonprofits, and startups. Inkos became the architect of their content marketing strategies, press releases, grant proposals, and other high-stakes communications.
I’ve known I’ve wanted to be a writer since I was eight. For almost two decades, I’ve fielded the same questions: So you want to be a teacher? Well, what kind of writer are you? Do you write books? Well, I’m fulfilled by years of teaching and tutoring and have put my personal writing out into the world (I self-published three poetry collections, presented my research as far as Panama and France, and birthed my 80-page magnum opus, “Music as a Cultural Rhetoric in Gay Dance Clubs in Austin, TX”).
I don’t want to be a writer so much as I’m ready to be your writer.
There’s a stereotypical image of writers as reclusive beings, clacking away, alone with their ingenuity. I’m the opposite—a people person, through and through. I think you have to be, to be a storyteller.
Inkos is competitive and ready to match your energy. I bring A-team research skills to whatever arena you’re playing in; calibrate advanced concepts to your target audience; compose your ideas with an eye for design; and I will write your projects with the same esteem as my own. Because when we’re on the same team, they are.
I’m Mindy, the inko.
I started building writing relationships at the Texas State University and The University of Texas at Austin writing centers. As an undergraduate writing tutor, I worked with writers on personal statements, statements of purpose, and scholarship essays. Where my peers struggled to transcribe their obvious worth on paper, I saw the clear sell of their stories from start to finish.
After selling insurance and translating its policy jargon to customers for three years with a major insurer, I returned to writing centers as a graduate coordinator while pursuing a Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Composition at Texas State University.
During the second year of my graduate assistantship, I designed and taught original College Writing I & II curricula. My teaching philosophy encouraged students to focus on process over product and write on topics that interested them, not me. As a result, I read hundreds of manuscripts about topics like Taylor Swift, hot Cheetos, and cuprolaminophobia. Students in my class used narrative writing to come to terms with cancer survival, come out for the first time, and cope with untold traumas.
My friends expressed interest in the writing magic happening in my classroom. They revealed writing projects that they wanted to take to the next level. And that’s how Inkos was born.
