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Having satisfied clients is nice.

Many thanks to @stephanieadaniels for being a stellar customer and a pleasure to work with! You can find a complete testimonial she gave in my highlights and on my website.

https://precisionproofreads.com/testimonials/

You can also check out her account and see what she's up to! The book I proofread, "The Uncertainty of Fire," is her debut, and was just recently self-published. It's historical fiction set around the Great Chicago Fire, and a pretty cool story.

(Also, we must set up a plea for Instagram to make italicization in captions possible. Book titles are supposed to be italicized, not in quotation marks. 😫)

What are three of the most important qualities for you as a writer to find in a proofreader?

Hallo, humans, I'm back! Here's an intro for thos

Hallo, humans, I'm back!

Here's an intro for those of you who are new followers. (Thanks so much for following!)

My name's Emma, and I'm passionate first of all about knowing God and making Him known. I want to be one of the redeemed of the Lord who say so, and don't just keep it to themselves (Psalm 107:2).

I used to genuinely not know what my passion was; I'm a fairly practical person and somehow didn't understand what being passionate even meant. But after studying the word's etymology trail (research it; pretty cool), I came to personally understand it as "something that's so important to you you're willing to suffer pain for it." Like Christ did for us. He's that important to me, and I want to be actually, practically passionate for Him.

I love discovering all the time how He's both mercy *and* truth, justice *and* compassion, neither to the exclusion of the other. I want to live that way, and it's one of my greatest glees to find people who exhibit God's character in that way: honesty and kindness in the same breath.

Though I'm not much of an artist myself, I appreciate writing and art that exhibit His mercy and truth in a beautiful way, both directly and indirectly.

A few facts and I'll be on my way:

- I adore proofreading. I love details; I love words. I believe the pen is (generally speaking) mightier than the sword, and since I'm not a writer myself, I'm excited I can still be part of that by proofreading others' writing.
- I adore Baroque music.
- Random conversations and way-too-long messages are, fortunately or unfortunately, my jam. Among other things.
- I would LOVE IT if there were an option to italicize words in Instagram captions so I wouldn't have to just do *this* or ALL CAPS to emphasize stuff.

It's great to have you around, people! Thanks to each one of you.

Tell me about yourself. (Even if I already know you. I like learning more.)

Do we have anything in common?

How do *you* define being passionate about something?

Does anyone here like Baroque music (or is it just too much harpsichord)?

Yo, folks! Not that I haven't already been slow la

Yo, folks! Not that I haven't already been slow lately, but I'm dropping in to say I'll be taking a posting break for a few weeks or so while I figure out some stuff. Not taking a total break from messages or from Instagram at large, but I need to give my noncreative brain some space for thinking about best marketing/content practices and all that jazz before I try to post more.

As for the recent already slowing in posting, it's because I was busy actually proofreading! Which is absolutely lovely.

Alas, I, unlike many of you awing maestros, am unable to focus thoroughly on more than a couple things at once. So the proofreading won (yay!) and the Instagram suffered (oops).

Here's to learning how to do everything at once! *raises glass* (Eheheh.)

What's your biggest business struggle, you who have businesses or things you need to market?

☘ Emma-core ☘

details ▪ healthy desserts ▪ Hardanger fiddles ▪ sunlight through trees at golden hour ▪ way-too-long emails ▪ constantly turning off lights ▪ mercy and truth ▪ Jesus Christ ▪ wind ▪ brussels sprouts roasted with parmesan and butter and salt ▪ Eeyore ▪ solitude ▪ etymology ▪ Baroque music ▪ practicality ▪ pathos ▪ vests ▪ ethos ▪ chocolate without the sugar is healthy, you guys ▪ logos ▪ 1w2 ▪ or 1w9 ▪ sometimes I'm not sure ▪ fastidiousness ▪ Eccl. 9:17 ▪ falling asleep at the drop of a hat ▪ Puddleglum ▪ nautical vibes ▪ not being able to bring myself to lowercase people's names ▪ the Cotswolds ▪ outward calm ▪ inward angst ▪ incessantly refolding couch blankets and straightening rugs and furniture ▪ stars behind clouds ▪ how the tide rushes in ▪ Michael Card music ▪ so not outdoorsy ▪ reading ingredient labels ▪ accuracy freak ▪ thunderstorms ▪ researching ▪ considering things from all sides ▪ trees ▪ privileged to carry His name

Many thanks to Esther @youwillmostsurelyfind for the nomination! 'Twas much fun. (Think I still got it too long. Oops.)

Tags in the photo (no pressure to do it if you don't want, but I'd love to see it if you do!), and if you see and want to do this, consider yourself tagged. 😎

What commonalities do we have, peeps? Anything in there resonate with you?

There’s your motivational reminder from Tolkien

There’s your motivational reminder from Tolkien for the week. (At least, it’s attributed to Tolkien.)

One step at a time gets us there faster than dwelling on the whole and despairing because it looks impossible. A simple concept; why so hard to consistently live out, I’ll never know. 😂

But take that next step. If you do it consistently enough, you might be awed when you look back and see how much of the path you’ve traveled. (Don’t look back right now, though. Just take the next step.)

In other news, exciting news, I’m finally in the wrap-up stage of a long book proofread for a client, and it was definitely little by little that I traveled far!

I don’t think I’d even started it when I drafted this post a couple months back, but hey, around when I planned to post this post coincides with my near-finishing of this project the other day, so why not tie ’em together. I traveled word by word, comma by comma, hyphen by hyphen, and all the things throughout that book. It was a blast, and monstrously satisfying to be so close to completion.

What’s something you’ve made progress on recently by taking a step at a time? Big or small, cool or not—I want to hear it. Even if it’s just cleaning your stove. 🧐

“Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will

“Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.”

This quote has been attributed to a few different people, including Johannes Gutenberg and Benjamin Franklin. I don’t know who actually said it, but it’s nonetheless a pithy testament to the power of letters and words to change the world.

What aspects of the world do you aim to influence with your writing? Are they little things, touching on the ins and outs of everyday relationships and life struggles? Are they things of a vast scope, aiming to turn some particular way people think on its head? Or something in between?

They’re all important, whether mainstream or obscure, big or small, light or dark. And fascinating. I’d love to hear if there’s a particular thematic focus you tackle in your writing!

Excuse me for a second while I flail over what a b

Excuse me for a second while I flail over what a beautiful word this is. *does so*

It's gorgeous, and the concept even better. Take it straight from Tolkien here, on slides two and three; he explains it best. (I wanted to quote like, three whole pages from this essay. You’ll just have to go read it; I had to stop myself somewhere. Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories.”)

(https://coolcalvary.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/on-fairy-stories1.pdf)

The moment of eucatastrophe in a well-done story is always incredible. But the real life eucatastrophe of the entire gospel, I find unfathomable.

I’m glad we were given a eucatastrophe in our world, not just a plain ol’ catastrophe. Jesus Christ knows how to do that “sudden joyous ‘turn’” from the depths of the most dark and broken situation that is humanity.

Do you prefer eucatastrophe or catastrophe in stories you read and watch? (Okay, dumb question, but there’s something to be said for both. Obviously there isn’t always a happy ending in individual life situations, so to have that always happen in stories would be lame and unrealistic. But there has to be at least some beauty to temper the misery.)

If you’re a writer, do you prefer writing happy endings or tragic endings?

The lovely @editoramberlambda tagged me a bit back

The lovely @editoramberlambda tagged me a bit back for the 5 Facts, 10 Friends challenge, so here goes!

My name's Emma and I'm a proofreader, bibliophile, and details freak, among other things. Here are five random facts about me, and ten tags in the comments for others to do the same. (If you weren't tagged but want to do this, consider yourself tagged!)

1. The few poems I've written in my life were Certified Cringeworthy, but I adore poetry done well.

2. I'm clichély-but-truly a proponent of the Oxford/serial comma. (Thus, "red, white, and blue" instead of "red, white and blue." Gotta have that second comma.)

3. I use the word "ain't" fairly often, so I must not be a total snob. I'm a stickler for accuracy and consistency, but I also believe language is made for people, not the other way 'round, and that some of the ways people actually use language should count as valid even if they weren't once upon a time. (Some of them. Not all. 😅) (And this does not mean I think "ain't" suitable for all discourse. But on occasion, it just hits the spot.)

4. I can't come up with original ideas to save my life, but I love analyzing other people's ideas.

5. I'm exceedingly grateful for the existence of you people who ARE cut out to be creatives and writers and poets. Keep doing the stuff. I'm so happy to just proofread. 😂

In other news, I recently finished some design tweaking on my website! It's new-ish and improved, and you can check it out at the link in my bio or here.

https://precisionproofreads.com/

What's the most random fact about yourself that comes to mind? I want to hear it!

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