For students
Blake works exclusively with long-term clients. He is not interested in helping a student finish a single assignment. He is interested in helping students become more skilled, more confident, and more adaptable writers over time. This means sessions are collaborative and cumulative. Students learn not only how to write more effectively but how to read their own work critically, how to revise with intention, and how to navigate the writing process with greater independence.
Parents of high school students should know that Blake's years teaching at an elite preparatory school and directing a college writing center have given him an unusually clear understanding of what strong academic writing looks like — and what it takes to get there. Students who have struggled with traditional rule-based grammar instruction often find more success with Blake's approach, which treats grammar as a tool for meaning rather than a set of rules to memorize.
For aspiring fiction writers
With nearly a decade teaching fiction at the college level, Blake has led both traditional workshops and creative writing classes that push beyond the standard table-bound model, adapting exercises and activities drawn from theater practitioners including Stella Adler, Uta Hagen, and Sanford Meisner. The conviction behind this approach is simple: fiction writers, like actors, must learn to access genuine feeling, and sometimes the workshop table alone is not enough to get them there. (Pictured here is one of his favorite activities—the blindfold exercise that asks students to experience a simple object using only touch, smell, and sound. The goal isn't to write lush sensory description. It's to train the kind of deep perception that separates writers who notice from writers who merely look.)
Blake works with writers one-on-one and in small tutorials, offering mentorship, manuscript consultation, and ongoing guidance for writers who are serious about developing their craft and want a thoughtful, experienced reader in their corner.
For professionals and individuals
Blake offers editing, proofreading, and ghostwriting services to individuals and professionals who are not enrolled in school. Whether you need a piece of writing sharpened, a document made more persuasive, or a project brought to life that you do not have the time or inclination to write yourself, Blake brings the same rigor and attention to your work that he brings to everything else. Every engagement begins with a conversation. He wants to understand what you are trying to accomplish and who you are trying to reach before he puts a word on the page or changes one of yours.
