Bitten by a radioactive Carl Sagan

If you're interested in becoming a science writer—or even just a writer, in general—hop over to Not Exactly Rocket Science, where blogger Ed Yong has started a collection of Science Writer Origin Stories. It's chock-full of career-path tales and helpful advice from people like the amazing Carl Zimmer, Wired's Steve Silberman, Newsweek's Mary Carmichael … and, hey, me!