My Agent Told Me To Make A Blog

One of my most memorable experiences was Blackwater Rafting in the glowworm caves in New Zealand. The word "rafting" is a bit misleading, because it's actually tubing, and at a rather relaxed pace. The awesome part comes from the fact that it's on the underground river, through a cave, with glow worms lighting up the ceiling overhead. Some of the tours cross bridges over the river, so you can see each other occasionally. One of my early Setting Inspirations was from another part of the same cave network , if you want to check that out. All right, that photo above isn't from the blackwater rafting. It's a photo of the caves I got from google. There are that many glowworms, but as most of the tour was in pitch blackness, I don't have any photos of them. All the photos came from the tour guide, who had a waterproof camera. Before we launched, we had to don wet suits, helmets, and go over procedure. One of the important steps we had to do was to link

Considering my recent major career change, I suppose some explanation is in order. Turns out, when you're an animal doctor, you have to see sick animals all the time. Who'd have thought? The animals aren't too much of a problem, though. Sure, instead of unconditionally loving every dog I see, I now think about why they'd make a terrible patient (too fat / fearful / no manners / land shark / awful veins / cancer factory), and I think of potential pets in terms of life span, but if all I had to do was treat pets in a vacuum with no client contact, I'd be quite content. Clients suck. They either make me angry or sad. If they're reasonable people who love their pets, then I just end up heartbroken that their pet is dying. The rest of the time, it's arguing about money, facepalming at the lack of compliance with my instructions, re-explaining concepts twenty times, and giving advice I know will be ignored. For example, my favorite appointments used to be

You know how I love writing and do pretty much nothing else with my spare time? Maybe you didn't know that. I'll bring you up to speed: if I'm not writing, I'm reading about writing, or in a chat room with other writers, or critiquing someone's writing, or watching lectures on writing, or just generally... talking and thinking about writing. The best days at work are when I have a big space without appointments so I can get some progress done on my draft while I'm there. It didn't take long for me to figure out that I want to eventually be a writer. My criteria for this started far-off, and gradually shrank... "I'll quit my job when I'm making more money from writing than from vet." "I'll quit when I've sold at least a couple books and have a steady income." "I'll switch to writing when I've sold a solid 3 books, so I know the first two aren't flukes." "I'll quit my job after I pu