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My name is Maria and I’m an award-winning published author who is passionate about helping new and established writers perfect their craft, develop their career, and maximize their creative potential.
I offer editing and coaching services for fiction writers of all genres, from story notes on early drafts to detailed line edits that will get your manuscript publication-ready.
The early stages of the creative process are precious! I can be your cheerleader as you work toward finishing that first draft, while also offering guidance and feedback where needed.
If you’re getting ready to do another pass on your story, I can provide feedback and guidance to help you navigate the next stage of the writing process with confidence.
It’s important to only publish your absolute best work, and I can help spot all those pesky grammar and spelling mistakes before it’s too late.
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It can be challenging to strike the right balance when writing an emotional scene. You don’t want your scene to come across as cringe, but you also can’t avoid emotion entirely. What’s a writer to do? Writing, truly, is all about emotions: capturing them in your writing, and also inspiring certain emotions in your readers.…
We’ve all been there: you get an idea for a book or a story that you’re really excited about, but the excitement doesn’t last. You eventually find yourself with half of a messy draft and this panicked feeling in your chest as you wonder, Why can’t I just finish the thing?! So many other writers…
I love it when I get a story idea in my dreams, or when I dream a solution to a creative block I’m facing. One of the best short stories I ever wrote (Green_fields published in the now-sadly-defunct White Review) came to me in a dream. Dreams are such a wonderful creative tool for writers…
