In 2008, I quit my corporate job, sold off everything I owned and moved overseas with my husband Drew. Since then we've traveled around the world, started our careers over as creative types and nurtured our love of sleeping in late. Oh and we had a baby. Cole, our almost 2 year old has been traveling since he was four months old and probably knows more Thai than me (not that he brags).
Completely Unrelated to Travel, Living Abroad or Anything Useful
While researching on writersmarket.com I ran across the listing for the perennial dog lover’s magazine from the seventies: Dog Fancy. Curious, I clicked through to the submission guidelines, where I found this instruction:
“No stories written from a dog’s point of view.”
Which can only mean that they have not only received stories set inside the mind of Fido, but SO MANY that they have to include it in the submission guidelines. Somewhere out there, there are readers of Dog Fancy, who not only write fiction with canine protagonists, but also consider it SO GOOD, that they submit it for publication to their favorite magazine. My husband and I were discussing this fact, when an idea occurred to me:
ME: You know, I should write about this.
HUSBAND: You should! And then launch into a story about Madrid from the perspective of our dogs.
ME: OMG I am totally going to do that. “Ten Reasons I love Madrid, by Jack the Dog”
HUSBAND: Number One: Tapas that fall to the ground
ME: Number Two: Long Siestas
HUSBAND: This stuff just writes itself!
ME: Then after that, I will announce my new blog: ThingsThatAreOnlyFunnyToMe dot com*
HUSBAND: And you can end every post with, “guess you had to be there”.
ME: Nice.
ME: …
ME: I wonder how many people would unsubscribe that day.
(*Amazingly enough this domain is already taken.)