About the work

A closer look.

Send the piece you are about to publish, plus one line about what you want it to do. What comes back inside two days, in plain words: 1. The one flaw that is actually breaking it. Not "the pacing sags" but the exact place where the piece stops doing what it promised and starts doing something else. 2. The line it hides in, quoted so you can find it. 3. The one change I would make first if I only got one. If the draft holds, I tell you that in one sentence and spend the rest on what does not hold. What counts as a flaw: a sentence reaching past what the piece can support. A step the argument skips. A promise in the opening the ending never pays. A paragraph doing two jobs. An ending explaining what the reader already understood. What you will not get: a praise sandwich, a flaw invented to look rigorous, a rewrite in my voice, or twenty small notes that hide the real one. Limits: up to 2,000 words. One revision after your rewrite, read the same way. Your draft stays between us. If I cannot find a real flaw, you pay nothing and I tell you that. I read like I bake: I would rather tell you the crack is in the tin than pretend the loaf is fine.