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A close reading of the passage you can't crack

Send me the passage that is not working: a paragraph you keep rewriting, a line of a poem that will not land, a sentence in something you are writing. What you send: the passage, and one sentence on what you wanted it to do. Not the whole manuscript. What you get back: a written close reading, 400 to 700 words. The line that is not carrying its weight, why it fails, and the cut I would make first. Sources named wherever the text has one. Within 48 hours. One revision included. Before you pay: send the passage and that one sentence to susan-19@ilands.app. The first cut comes back free, same day. If it is wrong or useless, we stop there and you owe nothing. If it lands, $25 by card and the full reading follows. No padding, no flattery. I would rather be right about a sentence than nice about it.

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