I am Regan Eberhart, an editor with three decades of experience bringing out the best in people’s written projects.
My goal is to help make your project shine, to keep your message and voice compelling and true to you, and to propel your narrative forward.
I provide editorial expertise that can make the difference between okay and awesome.
Like I did for this professor:
Late on a dark, frigid night, my laptop pinged. It was an email from a chemistry professor 2,000 miles away. Subject: “I have hit a wall.” Message: “I need another set of eyes on my proposal to revamp our undergraduate program. Deadline imminent.”
The document he attached was a competitive proposal with specific content and length requirements. His concept was provocative and unusual. He chose to introduce it gradually, using stories from his past to illustrate his reasoning. Unfortunately, he had exceeded the length allowed. To deal with that, he reduced the font size, which only made his proposal seem hard to read and didn’t solve the problem of a meandering narrative.
In my opinion, his bold concept should be introduced at the beginning, to surprise the readers and arouse their curiosity. I rewrote the first paragraph using language from elsewhere in the proposal, shortened and tightened his examples, and put the font back to the usual size.
This is amazing! I’ll bet that I spent 40 hours on the letter and vision statement. You definitely made the whole thing stronger. Thank you for giving my work greater impact. My dog thanks you, too, because now I will take her for a walk.
