Script Consultation
Sound critical feedback is an essential part of the writer’s journey. I will carefully read and evaluate your finished script, offering my professional analysis and a four-page set of notes to help you take it to the next level. These notes will address the project’s overall potential, evaluating the central concept and dramatic structure. I look deeply into story elements like tone, style, theme, plot, pace, dialogue, characterization and genre expectation, paying particular attention to where the script succeeds and where it still needs work. After this, we will do a one-hour follow-up call so that I can answer any questions, and discuss possible next steps for your project.
1:1 Coaching
From personal experience, I know writing to be a challenging and, at times, lonely occupation. If you’d like a creative partner in evaluating a story concept, or breaking one down, or working through a draft or a rewrite, I am also available for coaching engagements that go beyond a single read or a set of notes. Over a course of weeks or months, we can work together to identify your story goal, and develop a plan to help you execute on it. My approach is based on my own experience as a working writer, and knowing the kinds of support that I find most helpful. My goal is to help you tell the best version of your story.
Writing / Editing / GhostwritingHave an idea for a book but no idea how to write a book proposal? Need help with an important presentation or speech? Need someone who can help you write your memoir? I have over twenty years’ professional writing and editing experience working as a journalist, screenwriter, columnist, book author and speechwriter. During that time, I have written or ghosted dozens of articles, newsletters, keynote speeches, non-fiction book proposals, TEDx talks, a novel, and even one or two eulogies – all executed with the sensitivity and skill of a seasoned and artful writer. If you need help with yours, let’s talk, and I can put together a proposal to address your needs.