In keeping with Tice Week, I have a guest post up on Carol’s blog, Make a Living Writing.

Now, I know you guys are used to thinking of me as a fiction editor, probably because I keep writing all those posts about fiction. But that’s only after I went through the phone booth to climb into my cape. In the old days, I learned a great deal of my Copy and Line Editing skills out in the nonfiction trenches—twenty years in tech writing.

And the truth is I’m still out there, only now I only take contract work that doesn’t interfere with my independent editing. I love independent editing. But I do still have the industry contacts to make some bucks on the side.

So how do you get into tech writing? Pull down a cushy salary just for hanging around the office all day hobnobbing with other writers and putting words on the page? Don’t you ever wonder?

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