About the time of Jack O'Connor's retirement, he wrote an article for GUN DIGEST about being a gunwriter. I have that GUN DIGEST along with many others but don't remember which one it's in. Having not read the article in years, I only remember one major point O'Connor mentioned: as to writing about guns and anything gun related (hunting, handloading, etc., I think!), there were only about twelve different topics. Everything else was a takeoff on the "twelve". I suppose that remains true today.