Assessing someone’s manuscript and giving them a six page report requires sensitivity, grit, courage and lots of cups of tea. My client was happy with my feedback on structure, characterisation, setting, plot etc and now they’ve signed up for some regular coaching to finish off their manuscript. Creative midwifery, you might call it. I’ve been doing this for corporate clients for many a year, but this is my first time with a fiction writer. It’s a lot of fun.

Manuscript assessment and coaching