For several years in college, I made my living as a technical writer/ editor/ ghost writer/ whatever. Once you're a technical writer, you're always a technical writer: I can spot a spelling mistake from 200 yards off, and sometimes I have to force myself to use less formal grammar.

It's a great skill to have, but it's not poetry. Editing is easy; poetry, much less so. Technically perfect writing is to creativity what coloring inside the lines is to great art.

About 100 posts ago in here, I made a typo and was devastated for the entire week.