I look forward to the opportunity to work with you to review and identify your goals, what it will take to achieve them, and to implement a plan that makes your novel be what you want it to be.
In working with clients, writers, and colleagues to create everything from feature articles, books, blog posts, interviews, and biographies to educational materials, grants, and annual reports, the request I most often hear is, “Work your magic.”
I wanted to share this magic with you, but wanted to better understand what people meant when they said that, so I asked a colleague. She and I have worked together closely to create and publish articles about complex projects, and she confessed that when she started writing she would feel overwhelmed and fuzzy-brained. She would comb through data and project elements and outcomes, and then do her best to write it all down. “Most of the pieces were there, but it wouldn’t hang together,” she told me. “I was always relieved when you worked with me. You would read through it, ask questions to get to the heart of what we wanted to communicate, think about the audience and what would engage them, bring a laser focus to the structure and language, and gently guide me to where I wanted to piece to be. I felt confident that the final product would be compelling and clear. Extraneous material disappeared, and everything would fall into place and flow well.”