To any and all who’ve found their way to this blog, welcome! From brainstorming a business to building this website, it’s been a journey. I’d like to take the time to introduce myself and how Loose-Leaf found its way into being.
Your Proofreader
My name is Jessica Remick, owner of and current sole proofreader for Loose-Leaf Revisions. What started as an unpursued pre-college passion has slowly turned into a set of career goals. From the time I was little, it irked me to read a book and find spelling errors that tore me out of the complex worlds that brilliant authors were trying to build. In high school, my favorite classes focused on creative writing and the revision of said writing. The best part of the story-making process always seemed to be combing through classmates’ papers, circling and striking through errors that got in the way of some amazing ideas. This pattern continued into college where I found myself agonizing over correctly formatting research reports and misspelled textbook content.
Your Proofreading Service
It took several years of media intake after college to inspire the creation of Loose-Leaf Revisions. Across social media and news platforms, I saw some incredibly inspiring people having their messages hindered by grammatical and punctuation issues not caught by a spell checker. It filled me with a (somewhat dramatic) sense of indignance on their behalf. No one had their back before they hit “post” or “publish.” Some went on to be mocked internally by readers, or worse, in the comments for mistaking something like “colon” for “cologne.” It’s a rough world out there when millions of eyes can be on your ideas in seconds.
As a way to combine both my Type A love of pristine text with a sincere concern for anyone putting themselves out there in the form of writing, Loose-Leaf Revisions was created. The hope for this service is to combat literary faux pas that could have a lasting impact on the credibility and personal mortification levels of authors across the internet, in academic institutions, and in business settings. I hope I can help writers to help themselves out by encouraging them to get a fresh pair of eyes on their work. After all, no one want’s to be the target of “pubic ridicule.”
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