11.   After years of waking up disappointed, Ramsland decided to turn her fascination into a writing career.

12.   After the doctor repeatedly snored through their sessions, a miffed Tan decided to temper her high-powered technical writing career with forays into fiction.

13.   All three started their writing careers in self-publishing.

14.   But because her father wanted her to go to medical school, she put off her writing career.

15.   But she remembered the doubts attached to embarking on a writing career.

16.   But throughout his writing career, Rhodes has written on a range of topics with precision and insight.

17.   DePoy, who juggles his writing career with a job as a theater director, says he finds both stimulating.

18.   For Sontag, whose wide-ranging writing career has encompassed fiction, essays, plays and films, standards have evolved for a form of literature, the historical novel.

19.   Gerson began his writing career by co-writing a book with Charles Colson, the former Watergate figure and founder of the Prison Fellowship, a Christian outreach group.

20.   Having begun her writing career as a screenwriter, she soon soured on group-writing activities.