Patty Wetli is a freelance writer based in Chicago. Her work has appeared in Brevity and the Front Porch Journal and she covers the sweets beat for the Center Square Journal, a hyperlocal news website. If you're an 8-year-old and play with science kits, you might know her better as the author of instruction guides for things like Disgusting Body Science.
This is exactly what happens. An editor writes to say, “would you like to write for my publication? About being a Dad? Something interesting, please,” and being interesting sounds like…