If you're lucky, you still do. There's nothing like finding a story world, written by a skilled author, that just pulls you in so deeply, the rest of the world melts away.

Now you're the writer, and you're wondering how in the world other people did it!

You've finished your first draft, and you're not sure it delivers the emotional gut-punch you want. The kind that leaves readers with a massive book hangover, where the only cure is to buy the next book.

I offer specific tools and insight--encompasing structure, pacing, armature, character, point of view, scene, flow--to help you focus and bind the reader's journey to the character's.

Now, you can be happy with simply completing a draft--that's more than most folks do in their lifetime! Or you can dig in, get dirty excavating the bones of your story and expend some sweat polishing it until it shines and truly represents the best story you can craft.

When I work with writers, my goal is to teach myself out of a job.

After we work together, you'll have a plan to cut straight to the heart and infuse charged emotion into your manuscript, and you'll have collected a variety of tools you can apply to future work.