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Let me acknowledge, first of all, the readers who responded to last week’s column, “Exercises for the Editorially Minded,” where I shared some exercises that I give my class in Professional Writing to help rid my students of their wordiness and show them how to say the same thing in different ways.

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To my pleasant surprise, last week’s piece on what editors do drew a stream of positive responses — I never imagined that so many readers would find the thankless and dimly illuminated job of editing so fascinating — but my biggest surprise after the column came out was to realize that I’d already written not just one but two columns on editing, back in 2010.

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People often ask me about my work as a professional writer — meaning, someone who makes a living out of his writing, rather than someone who just loves to write the occasional poem for sharing with friends.

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Every now and then I get requests for interviews, usually from some hapless student assigned to do a term paper about my fiction.

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I was asked again a couple of times last week if creative writers can make a living off their writing. And as I have for ages, I again had to say, sadly, no.

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Let me acknowledge, first of all, the readers who responded to last week’s column, “Exercises for the Editorially Minded,” where I shared some exercises that I give my class in Professional Writing to help rid my students of their wordiness and show them how to say the same thing in different ways.

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To my pleasant surprise, last week’s piece on what editors do drew a stream of positive responses — I never imagined that so many readers would find the thankless and dimly illuminated job of editing so fascinating — but my biggest surprise after the column came out was to realize that I’d already written not just one but two columns on editing, back in 2010.

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People often ask me about my work as a professional writer — meaning, someone who makes a living out of his writing, rather than someone who just loves to write the occasional poem for sharing with friends.

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Every now and then I get requests for interviews, usually from some hapless student assigned to do a term paper about my fiction.

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I was asked again a couple of times last week if creative writers can make a living off their writing. And as I have for ages, I again had to say, sadly, no.

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