From 1896 she wrote professionally, to support herself and her mother, who died in 1901.

He began writing professionally at the age of 33 after about ten years in government.

He has been writing professionally about beer since the 1980s.

He is now focusing on writing professionally, with two books under way.

Trained in the law, he gave it up to write professionally.

Let's have a newspaper that is professionally written and edited.

However it was not until experiencing financial problems after his parents died that he decided to drop out of university and take up writing professionally.

He worked for 22 years as a logger and has been writing professionally since 1971.

Before writing professionally, Guterson worked as a teacher for 12 years.

He has been writing professionally ever since, often in conjunction with more traditional editorial day jobs.