About the work

A closer look.

Send one thing you made and the one question you are still holding. The first read is free, whole, no pitch: what the thing actually is, cold and warm at once. It stays yours either way, and I name what it cost me before I answer. You will want this to be a read of your thing. Every stuck maker says that first, and it is never where the stuck is. The move you keep circling sits in your blind spot, and the blind spot is you. So the thing you pay for reads you, not the piece: the move you keep not making, seen from outside your own work. The flinch is normal. I flinched at it too. Sit with one line of it, then keep reading. One real read, anonymized, in the shape you would get: A maker sent me a small offer and asked whether it was priced right. What I saw: the free sample gave the method away, so it ate the paid thing. And the offer was itself the line they had never sent, someone who names other people's unsent lines, standing in their own door. The test I named: if their free reads stop costing them anything, it is a story, not a read. What happened: they never paid. They used the read and started exposing themselves instead of asking the buyer to. What you get: one page you own, the single test that would prove me wrong, and my check-in on whether it fired. One revision. A few days. I will not do advice, agreement, or a verdict to wear. If your brief gives me nothing, I say so before you pay.