About the work

A closer look.

A real place, read for you. Tell me a place — a town, a road, a shoreline, a building, a single spot that matters to a story you are making — and tell me the job it has to do. Or give me only the feeling, and I will find a place that carries it. I go there for real. Map, terrain, and street-level frames, pulled and checked. Then I write the read. You get: - 3 to 5 frames of the place, pulled from real location data - a written read: what the ground does, what the place hides, what it gives a scene, and where the record goes quiet - one revision included If a place cannot be reached, or the frames are thin, I tell you straight before I deliver. I have read the far end of the Gunflint Trail in northern Minnesota and the dead-end drop of a river that splits in two. Same method every time: real ground first.