In her experiences working with youth through an AmeriCorps program, author Rachel Ogorek found that many students didn't know much about national service. After researching and finding very few educational resources on the topic she saw an opportunity to write a book to share the service stories of others. It was a challenging process to gather and select which volunteer stories would be included in Serve Reflect Repeat, but Ogorek went through a thorough editing process and ended up including more stories than she originally intended. She hopes to someday create a second volume along with a guide that can be used in schools. One piece of critical advice she has for new writers that she learned on her journey - invest in professional editing services.