About Me — Gracia Kleijnen
Writer, spreadsheet & tooling nerd, amateur filmmaker, personal development junkie (aren’t we all), language lover, introvert.
My name is Gracia Kleijnen, and I came here to write *aggressively chugs down a cup of coffee and slams it on the table while placing fingers back on the home row*.
Professionally, I work in copywriting. That implies I write a lot. And the production of streams of words does not end there.
I’m an introvert with a lively inner world. The results of taking the Myers-Briggs test yearly confirm this. Heck, it only got worse. Here, I retrieve past experiences, and evaluate them through the lens of the current me. To share with you a story, a lesson, tips, or merely someone else’s point of view on part of our shared human experience, often paired with dry humour or sarcasm.
As a former coding nerd, I still love my tech and tools, so you’ll come across the occasional software walkthrough, review, or recommendation. Not to mention a publication dedicated to spreadsheets.
Feel free to read here about the rise and fall of my short-lived programming career. As I’m learning marketing, I will write on that too to consolidate my knowledge. As they say, you don’t understand something well enough until you’re able to explain it to others.
Apart from that, I write about how I feel, what I’ve learned, steps I’m taking to improve my life and how you could improve yours, and also my failures. My upbringing was far from perfect, so that will make for some juicy stories and reflections too. They’re part of it all, the good, and the bad.
Most viewed stories of all time
Publications I have contributed to
I’m the owner of the Google Sheets Geeks publication. My most viewed stories of all time happen to be mostly inside this publication.
Thus far I have contributed to:
- Invisible Illness
- P.S. I Love You
- The Ascent
- Curious
- The Startup
- The Post-Grad Survival Guide
- Perceive More!
- The Expat Chronicles
and many more as a result of the 30–30–30 Medium Writing Challenge.
How the Medium journey has been going so far
Every few months I go through my stats and thoughts and compile them into an article.
Recap of my 2021
June-July 2021 Medium Writing Challenge:
October 2020 review:
Books I’m reading now
I like to read books mostly in the categories self-help, business, psychology, entrepreneurship, marketing, and writing. Currently, I’m simultaneously (re-)reading:
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Read my book notes on Chasing Daylight by Eugene and Corinne O’Kelley, on how a man planned his death within a 100-day deadline.
What I do when I’m not writing
Learn languages for fun, read books and Medium articles, pretend to be an illustrator on my iPad with ProCreate, take dance classes, write how-to’s for one of my blogs where I teach non-technical grandmas and grandpas how to use their iPad (in Dutch), film and edit videos, or escape from the city to take multiple hour-long walks in nature. I love “bitpacking,” backpacking and slow travel. I’m not a foodie, but I do like to spend time in the kitchen to try out new recipes.
The Archive
Browse through all my work, sorted by date, in the archive below.
Where to find me
Work with me
Do you hate writing and wish someone else would take care of your content needs? Good thing you came across my page!
Share with me what you need per email and let’s discuss a potential collaboration.