When You’ve Gone Pro

Being a professional writermeans different things to different people. In the writing world, some writers have come to define professional as qualifying for membership in a professional writingorganization. This often means you have to have been published by an approved publisher or magazine paying professional rates.

I’m going to be up front for a moment. I do not believe you can solelyjudge professionalism based on whosomeone’s publisher is or what magazine they were published in. How many o...