love what you do.

hi, i'm a writer.

i love what i do...but as i have said before, i didn't always know a. if i was good enough or b. what kind of writer i was.

it took me what feels like my entire life to figure it out... i remember my eleventh grade honors english teacher calling me to speak with her. she wanted me to make a decision. she said that i wasn't writing great formal papers, but that it was unique and creative. my choices were to either go on writing like i was and make low A's and high B's OR to learn how she'd like them written for high A's.

i asked her what she thought i should do. her answer was the mark of a true teacher, one who saw me as an individual rather than a statistic to report to the headmaster of how well she was doing. she told me that i wasn't going to be a scholar (you think? :) ) so i should keep writing like i was. she told me i was going to have to learn how each teacher liked me to write papers...she was right.

with her blessing, i stayed true to my "way", and i got low A's and high B's. but then in college,  when i took my freshman seminar class about the holocaust with a senior professor who didn't like to deal with freshman because "they were high schoolers", i made an A+ on my first college research paper. my teacher gave me confidence, she gave me the backbone to continue on. and because i knew how i wrote the best, i actually started to learn how to do it both ways. because i knew who i was, i could be strong enough of a writer to be someone else for a paper or two.

that's what a writer is right? it's acting on a page.

hi, i'm a writer...and maybe an actor, too. (the difference is, i can sit in my robe all day and not sit in a makeup chair...and if you know me, you know i like that perk!)

have a great week!

ashlyne huff revelette