Writing Transforms Shy Gal Into a Superhero

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I’ve already listed “What Being a Writer Has Taught Me” in an earlier post, but one thing I didn’t mention was how it has changed me.

See, I’m a shy person.  As a grad student in Counseling Psychology I took the Myers-Briggs personality test which only confirmed my introverted-ness.  Yet, when I put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard I’m suddenly transformed.  Kind of like superman with his cape I guess.  It makes me “more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.”  Well, maybe only in my dreams.  But it does get me to walk straight up to a US congressman and interview random people passing by.

In high school, I won an award for a piece I wrote for the newspaper.  It wasn’t for my word whizzing skills or for my ability to evoke strong emotion in our readers.  I actually won because of my determination to get the story.  The story was about helping high school students obtain part-time jobs and I interviewed everyone from a McDonald’s manager to a HR manager at a department store called Liberty House.

I don’t know what gives me the chutzpah to go out there and make a fool out of myself.  Except for maybe the fact that I love a good story.  And it’s something about the process of writing and researching transforms me from a chihuahau into a bull dog.