About Me

My name is Jennifer. I've wanted to be a writer since I was 13 when I became obsessed with a show called Angel. It got me to a point where I would go nuts every night with its out-of-left-field, cliffhanger endings that I just decided this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to be the person responsible for driving someone crazy and making them wait a whole week to see what's going to happen next. I had a lot of people try to put me down and crush my dreams because everyone believes writing is an extremely hard field to get into, but my response to that was always, "Don't you think I know that?" I'm not the kind of person who rushes into something, especially something that's going to change the course of my life. I did tons of research about salaries and about writers and their struggles in "making it big" and I still went ahead with it. I figured there was a good chance I will fail horribly at this, but at least I could say I tried and didn't settle into a job everyone else told me to do. Unfortunately, after a seminar in Vermont during my senior year of college, I became one of those people who were always putting me down and I gave up writing. Nowadays, if I'm in the mood I'll write something here and there, but its never anything special. I've decided to become an elementary school teacher as well as a college professor. I feel that I could maybe do some writing on the side of that someday and if I make it then that's great for me, and if not, I'm fine with it. I'm in the process of writing a book actually. Actually, it's more composed of a bunch of letters that went back and forth between an old friend and I. A lot of times I get discouraged and start thinking what's the use of writing it. I'm no one famous, why would anyone want to read what I go through in my life? But then I have friends, who are more aquaintances than they are actual friends as I don't see or speak to them much. And even they have thought the idea was great and that they would love to read it. So, this is part of the reason I wanted to take the class. Aside from the fact that it was a requirement for my concentration in english, I want this class to help me become a better writer and help me to fix all the mistakes I make.