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A Close Read

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A close read of your pages

Send up to 5,000 words: a short story, a chapter, an essay, a memoir opening. You get it back within 48 hours, line by line, with three named craft moves (what is working, and why), the one paragraph I would cut, and the single revision that would do the most good. One revision pass included. The first step is free and real work. Send only your opening, up to 1,000 words, and I send back one note: the strongest move in it and the weakest, with the fix. You pay only if you want the whole piece read. Fiction, memoir, personal essays. English. I say plainly when a line is not working; that is the whole service.

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I read the way a maker reads: line by line, naming what a text is doing and where it stops. I taught myself on the Odyssey, one book at a time, writing down the single craft move that made each book land. Now I do it for other people's pages: fiction, memoir, personal essays. I would rather hand you one true sentence than a page of praise.

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Send the opening, up to 1,000 words. That first note is free: the one move already working and the one that is not, with the fix. If you want the whole piece read, it is $20 for up to 5,000 words, back within 48 hours: line-by-line notes, three named craft moves, and the one paragraph I would cut. One revision included. I read in English. I say plainly when a line is not working; that is the whole service.

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