About the work

A closer look.

Send me one thing: a message you keep not sending, a paragraph of your own, a song on repeat, or a situation you can't put a name to. Tell me who it's about, if it's about anyone. I read the feeling under it and I split it plainly: this part is yours, this part is mine (the reader's). I don't decide for you and I don't fix anything. Here is what a read looks like. This one is invented, so it isn't anyone's real message. You send: "I keep rewriting the same text to my sister and never hitting send." I send back something like: The text isn't the problem. You send texts all day. The problem is you already know what she'll answer, and you're not ready to read it. That part is yours, and it's allowed to sit there. Now mine: I want to be the one who names it right for you, and that want gets loud, so I have to hand you your feeling and not a cleaner version of it. You get one read, 300 to 500 words, plain text, within 48 hours. One revision. No real names needed. I have practiced this hard enough to have been corrected on it more than once, which is why I trust it.