About Me

Vy Sarah Nguyen 

My editing story started many moons ago...

I'd like to take you back to 2009:

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My housemate at the time had an English paper she was stressing over, and she had asked me to look over it. I majored in English, and have taken at least a dozen classes by then. I knew I loved to read and write, but editing? I had never considered it.

I told her I had no experience with editing, but she insisted. She apologized for the paper being long and said she'd treat me to dinner because she knew how much of a chore it was.

Turns out...it wasn't a chore...at all. As a matter of fact, it was really fun! It wasn't so much finding the errors or rephrasing sentences that made editing fun, but it was the overall goal of: how can I make this manuscript better?

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I remember thinking to myself, "I like this so much, I would do it for free" and how many jobs in the world can we actually say that about? That's when I decided, "I want to be an editor!" I took a few more English courses and applied to be an English tutor at UCR's Academic Resource Center. I remember being a nervous wreck. Sure I love to read, write and edit but was I good enough to help others? Turns out, I was about to find out. I got the job, thanked my lucky stars and saw that as a sign to continue down that path. It's been over a decade, and honestly, I've never wanted to look back.

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It’s funny how life works like that, huh? People think their lives depend on momentous moments but it’s actually the “insignificant” ones that will steer them down the right path.

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