Daniel Burgess

Monthly Coaching

For the writer focused on fleshing out partially written material, fragments that cannot rest until they have been combined into a whole, or personal memoirs that must be committed to paper, monthly coaching provides guidance for every step of the writing process. You pick the number of hours you want to commit, and I’ll be here to schedule brainstorming sessions and start exchanging notes.

Manuscript Critique

For the completed manuscript that needs a close read and global feedback, I provide a set of your pages with notes in the margin throughout and an accompanying editorial letter. Between the two we will cover any issues of narrative arc, pacing, style, and voice in your writing, and provide you with a roadmap to revision.

Comprehensive Edit

For the polished manuscript ready for close markup, I provide a complete line edit to help shape your story into the best version of itself. With an accompanying letter serving to explain my overall editorial strategy, line-by-line marks on your pages demonstrate the changes I would suggest to hone your voice, develop character fully, illuminate thematic underpinnings, and otherwise harness every word in service of streamlining the narrative.