- Join a supportive community of fellow editors.
- Conduct an ultralearning project to improve your editing skills and systems for at least one month.
- Take an editing course.
- Find a mentor.
- Read memoirs or stories of editors.
- Transition towards focusing on development and structural editing.
- Transition towards editing only essays or nonfiction writing.
- Eventually consider editing poems, once you have improved your poetry.
- Eventually consider editing stories.
- Offer to be a writing coach.
- You may still accept line, copy, and mechanical editing, but charge more.