Dave, Anna Lisa, and Sara come together with special guest Ellen Elliot to discuss careers in scientific writing. The guest does the interviewing in this episode, as Ellen, who is a postdoc in Adam Williams's group at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, leads a discussion of the choice points that lead us down different scientific paths and strategies for transitioning from the bench to full-time writing. We also cover the two-body problem, the range of opportunities that science writing can provide and why we love our current roles as "PhD Spackle".