How we think about editing

A few things we hold onto on every project

None of this is complicated. It's the same handful of ideas we come back to whether we're proofreading a poem or laying out a 300-page manuscript — the kind of thing you'd scribble in a margin, not a mission statement.

A rough draft isn't a problem to fix. It's a promise to keep.

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Good notes tell you what's not working. Great notes tell you why.

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We'd rather say no to a project than say yes and disappear.

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Have a draft sitting in a folder somewhere?

Send it over. We'll read the first pages properly and tell you what we honestly think, before you commit to anything.

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