![]() ![]() ![]() Janey Martin, a California college student and aspiring journalist is tired of writing puff pieces about her university men’s sports teams. The Vietnam War has been raging for years with no end in sight. So during the time before "made it official", I waited tables, I tended bar, worked in the front office of a school, and even as a travel agent, writing my stories on the side all the while. From Emma Scott comes a breathtaking sports novella, One Good Man It’s spring, 1970. It took me a long time to work myself up to that point, even after having written more than one million words of short stories, fantasy opuses, and fanfiction. Toni Morrison is a writer." You have to put yourself in that same group and be proud of it. I think a person can love writing and spend all her free time in pursuit of that, but when it comes to actually standing up and saying, "Yes, I'm a writer," it's a whole other ballgame. I honestly don't know why I spent so much time (and got myself into so much student loan debt!) on a career path that wasn't what I was meant to do. This was in San Francisco, so I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting after graduation. ![]() ES: In college, I majored in Theatre Arts-of all things-with an emphasis on acting. ![]()
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