Words Working For You
Ramsey Writing Services is a writing and editing company based in beautiful New Kent County, Virginia. We’re happy to work with businesses, organizations, and individual writers anywhere in the world.
Some clients come to us because they need to have things written. Others already have written the words and are looking for help refining and/or formatting them.
If you need it written or edited, we’d love to look at it.
What Does a Copywriter Do?
A copywriter writes the material a business or organization uses to communicate with the people it needs to reach. That might be a page on a website or an email to customers. It could also be a newsletter, a blog post, an article, social media posts, a sales letter, or something that does not fit neatly into a standard category.
A copywriter’s job isn’t to make everything sound fancy. The job is to explain what the client wants to say in a way that the intended reader can understand.
Most business owners know their work better than anyone else. Knowing the work and explaining it are different things, though, especially when you’re busy running the business. A copywriter learns what you need to communicate and the voice you use to do it, then takes that task off your plate so you can keep doing what you do best.
What Does a Copyeditor Do?
A copyeditor starts with something that’s already been written.
They check spelling and punctuation, but they also listen to the writing. When the editor is done, the finished piece should still sound like the writer. The sentences should move naturally, and prose should be clear. The editor follows the document from one section to the next, watching for places where the meaning becomes unclear or the details stop lining up.
Remember, spellcheck can catch some surface errors, but it can’t follow the meaning of a document from beginning to end. It also cannot tell when a technically correct edit has stripped away the writer’s voice. The editor’s job is not to make every writer sound technically perfect, it’s to strengthen the work without editing the writer out of it.
AI can do writing, of course… and can suggest changes that are technically correct. But AI cannot reliably tell when it has flattened the writer’s voice or polished away the human element that makes the words land. That judgment needs a human writer or editor.
What Our Clients Say
One of our clients, Dale Fater, wanted an educational document he could share with Realtors while building his network and demonstrating his expertise. The original document contained solid information, but it was too dense to read quickly. We worked with him to make it easier to use and formatted it so he could print it out as a booklet using a standard printer and 8 ½ x 11 paper.
“I had the opportunity to work with Lauren and Alan on a document that I wanted to use as a way to build my network with Realtors by giving them some educational value and showing my expertise. We started off with a document that I had created, and the document was by far too dense to really be easily and quickly digestible. Lauren and I spent multiple iterations getting the content correct, and then we spent even more iterations getting it to the perfect printable setup.
The work that this team did was invaluable to me, allowing me to focus on my customers while they took care of detailed editing, page setup, and digestibility of the product. I already had solid reviews on the initial document. I can’t wait to see the value brought to our realtor community as a result of this new and improved product.
Would recommend working with this team on your next project.”
-Dale Fater
Need a Writer, an Editor, or Both?
Bring us the project. We’ll take a look and tell you straight whether we can help make words work for you.