A sharp, expert eye on your story before you go any further.
Getting editorial feedback as a fiction writer is one of the most valuable things you can do for your story, but it doesn’t always have to mean a full manuscript edit. Sometimes you just need a sharp, experienced eye on what you have right now, before you go any further.
You’ve got pages. Maybe a full short story, maybe the opening of a novel, maybe a premise you’ve been circling for weeks. Something is there and you can feel it. But something’s also not quite right, and you can’t see it clearly enough to fix it.
That’s not a failure of craft. That’s just what it’s like to be too close to your own work.
The Story Check-In is a focused, one-off editorial session designed to give you exactly what you need: an honest, expert read on what’s working, what isn’t, and what to do next with clear, actionable insight from someone who genuinely loves the puzzle of story.
What You Submit
You choose what to bring. This works for:
- A short story up to 5,000 words
- The opening 5,000 words of your novel
- Your completed Story Blueprint materials
What You Get
- A written editorial feedback (3–4 pages) covering what’s working, what’s unclear, and specific next steps for revision
- Detailed inline comments throughout your pages with concrete examples and recommendations
- Clarity on how your work sits within your genre and what readers will expect
- A 45-minute Zoom call to walk through the feedback together, ask questions, and map out your next move
- Additional resources or exercises where relevant (craft tools that address your specific story challenges)
You arrive not quite sure what’s wrong and leave knowing exactly what to fix and how to fix it.
That clarity is worth more than another few weeks of rewriting in circles.