Rachel McGonagill

One of the time honored traditions of being a writer is having a cat to shed on your manuscripts before they're sealed up in an 8X10 envelope and posted to a wonderful magazine or publishing company that's been waiting all its life to read your dreck.

Cat owner, check.

There is an equally time honored tradition of putting off writing by doing anything and everything that you can conceive of, since the actual "put butt in seat, put fingers on keyboard" method of writing seems like, well, work. This process is called Cat Vacuuming, and rightly so. I know my cats would simply love this form of torture.

Right, guys? . . . Guys?




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