I wasn’t always a professional writer. I spent the first ten years of my  career working in big business—mostly in the technology sector—in various roles including Project Manger, Business Analyst, and Business Management Consultant. I mention this fact because I think it’s a large part of what enabled me to break into freelance magazine writing as quickly as I did. Writing may be an art, but publishing is a business. And understanding that business is just as important as learning to write well. While I’ve been tempted to dismiss those ten years I spent…