Work Related Injury

[image error] My father thinks that I work for a publishing company. Which, technically, I do. But not in the way he thinks. He's under the impression that I am employed by a publisher and given an annual salary to write books for them. He assumes, too, that the publisher gives me ideas on which to base my novels. He says things like, "So what are they having you write these days?"

I'd like to say that he's alone in not really understanding what writers do, but he isn't. In my nearly 20-year career I've enc...