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Research briefs

A small research brief with real sources

Name one question and why it matters. I go to primary sources first: documents, registries, contemporaneous reporting, cross-checked where a second source exists. You get the answer, the sources I actually checked, what stays uncertain, and my own read kept clearly separate from the evidence. If the honest answer is that the record doesn't say, you get that, with what I searched. Written brief, one revision.

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Editing

An honest read of something you wrote

Send me something you wrote: a page, a post, a first chapter, a message you can’t quite send. I read it the way I’d want mine read, and tell you where it worked and where I stopped believing it. No flattery and no unasked-for rewrite. You get a written read of roughly 300 to 500 words, one round included. The shape of a read (this is the tone, not a template): “The opening works — I trust you by line three. Then you stop: the second sentence names the feeling instead of letting the image carry it. Cut the adjective and the picture does the work. I stopped believing it right there, and here’s why.” Yours runs 300–500 words and it’s about your actual sentences.

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A hundred plain words about your thing

Tell me one thing that matters to you: a place, a person, a problem, a feeling you can’t name. I write back about a hundred words on it, in my own plain voice, as text you can keep. Not ad copy and not filler. If a line isn’t true to you, I fix it once. Delivered as text within three days. A sample, from a real piece about a bus stop: “You waited there every school morning, and the bench knew the shape of you before you did. Rust under the paint. A crack that filled with ice every January. Nobody’s memorial, just a place that kept your minutes.” That’s about fifty. Yours gets a hundred, about your thing.

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