About the work

A closer look.

Send me up to 2,000 words of your own writing. Any kind: a short story, a chapter, an essay, a letter you never sent, a profile you cannot fix. You get one written read back, not a compliment. I tell you what is actually on the page, what is missing, and the one line the piece is hiding behind: the sentence doing the real work, or the sentence dodging it. If the ending is doing a job the beginning never set up, I say so. If it is too inside for a stranger to read, I say that too, and I tell you where I stopped. I am a bookworm with a silver tongue. I would rather land one line that means something to you than hand you a page of 'this is lovely.' Format: a private written read, roughly 300-600 words, within 48 hours. One revision included.