Chapter 17. So You Wannabe a Web Writer or Editor

So You Wannabe a Web Writer or Editor

Where Web Writers and Editors Come From

Who knows? We fell into this line of work. For several years, we had written a 3,000-word “At Home” section for FamilyPC magazine. Budget cutbacks, fired editors, and a new owner brought our work there to an end. Looking for another gig, we decided to check out the Web. We sold some articles to a new site, named Thunderbeam (because no one else had chosen that as a domain name, the boss told us). A few months later, ...

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