After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
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I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.
I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.