Write Livelihood

The writing bug bit early for me–after reading an S.E. Hinton novel in 1982, I started sending my work off to magazines to get published and by age 15, I had gotten my humor essays published and had snagged a job as a correspondent for TeenAge, a magazine for American teens in high school and early college.

I graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in magazine journalism, but my writing career has taken me through a variety of settings–from industrial training video scripting and production, editing newsletters for retirement community residents and for public library employees, proofreading form letters at a bank, and drafting presentation resumes for a technical training and documentation firm.

For the last 8 years, I’ve worked as an editor pretty much full-time and I’ve developed a real love for coaching writers in shaping their nonfiction. This blog will cover advice and information designed to improve all aspects of writing, from research to story structure to cultivating better relationships with editors.