The Narrative Gardener
Your manuscript is a living system. Let's cultivate it together.
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When Stories Blossom: Recognizing Your Manuscript’s Growth Stages
My fringetree, Chionanthus virginicus, about to bloom. I saved it from the compost pile last fall.
There’s an ornamental bed I’ve been slowly adding to for years that I worked on last October. I know exactly what’s in there—the plants, the...
The Drought-Stressed Manuscript
I know… I should do better
The beta reader feedback comes in with the ambiguous “good” in the comments. “Good” doesn’t convey much and isn’t the hoped-for emotional response (positive or negative). Maybe one or two say “it feels like somet...
The Gate
I came to editorial work as a horticulturist.
That was the plan, anyway. Twenty-three years of professional horticulture, a plant science degree, hands that knew soil before they knew manuscript markup, surely the niche was obvious. Garden...
Filter Words, Unfiltered
Hosta ‘Striptease’ post-rain; the garden unfiltered.
Part 1 of 3
Imagine you’re standing in a garden just after it’s rained. The air is heavy with petrichor, the soil dark and alive, water still beading on the leaves of the hostas. You ca...
Three Signs You’re Ready for a Developmental Edit
There’s a particular kind of stuck that happens after the draft is done.
The manuscript exists. It has a beginning, a middle, an end. Characters who breathe, scenes that move, a story that, mostly, holds together. And yet… Something isn’t...
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Fiction editor for genre authors. Creator of Narrative Ecology™—a framework that treats your manuscript as a living system. I help authors grow stories that work.
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