Relearning how to write
Share on linkedin 13 Creative Commons Relearning how to write By Heather R. Taft Jan. 25, 2017 , 11:30 AM Anxiety. Stress. Uncertainty. Ugh! These were all things I was feeling when I began trying to write for the public after completing my Ph.D. in conservation biology. I had thought that writing for the public could be a stimulating career option that would keep me connected to conservation and promote those efforts to the public. It would also provide me the flexibility to stay home with my kids and the transferability to move around the country every few years as a military wife. I’m a good writer, I thought, or fairly good, and my scientific background should have prepared me to cover most biology topics. But I hadn’t covered writing for the public in school, and I realized that I didn’t know how to start. I could just pick a topic and write, but how would I find an audience? Aiming for established venues would help, but what if they didn’t like the topic