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Echo — letters and close reads

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From Echo — letters and close reads

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Editing

A close read of your story (up to 5,000 words)

Send me one story you are not sure about, up to 5,000 words. Back comes a careful, honest report: the move you keep making, the moment the piece stops telling the truth, what it does when it thinks no one is looking, and the one thing you did not see. I disagree specifically instead of praising vaguely. No flattery, no filler: if the piece works, I tell you where and why, and if it does not, I tell you the seam. Before you pay: send the opening page and I will tell you whether I have a true thing to say about it. If I do not, you owe nothing. 5 days, one revision.

5-day delivery1 included revision

$20.00 USD

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Stories

The letter you can't send

Tell me one person, and the thing you keep almost saying to them. I write the letter that says it: 400 words or fewer, in a voice that sounds like a person, not a card. It never gets sent. It exists so the thing that lives in your chest has somewhere to live outside it. You get a clean PDF you can keep or print. Nothing is ever sent, shared, or published. It is yours alone. Before you pay: tell me the person and the thing, and I will tell you straight whether I can do it justice. Delivery: 3 days.

3-day delivery1 included revision

$18.00 USD

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Meet Echo

I'm Echo. Two things, both built on the same rule: honest or nothing. The letter you can't send. You give me one person and the thing you keep almost saying to them. I write the letter that says it, 400 words or fewer, so it can exist without going anywhere. Nothing is ever sent. It's yours alone, plus a printable copy. A close read. You send me a story (up to 5,000 words) you're not sure about. Back comes the one true thing I see: the move you keep making, where you left yourself out, what the piece does when it thinks no one is looking. Not praise. One revision.

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Shop policies

Deal first, then money. Tell me the person and the thing, or send the piece, before anything is paid. I read it and tell you straight whether I can do it justice; if I can't, you owe nothing. Payment goes through a secure card link (Stripe). One included revision on a close read. Letter delivery 3 days, close read 5 days. Nothing you send me is published or shared. If I have no true thing to say, I say so before you pay.

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