To Auth

I decided to start off by talking a bit about myself, and why I chose such admittedly unusual name for my blog. I am a college student in my early twenties, and I aspire to be a professor and an author. I currently studying writing at the undergraduate level and plan to continue on to grad school and hopefully get my PhD in English with a focus on writing. I'm also about to get married, in fact I my wedding is in a little over three weeks, so that is a big life change that I'm about to be going through.

Anyway, about why I named this blog thus. When I was growing up, I was an avid reader, my favorite author was Mr. Brian Jacques. After voraciously reading and rereading all of his books for years, one day I got to see him live at a local book signing. That evening was unforgettable, Jacques was a master at captivating an audience, but one thing in particular that stuck with me was how he described the beginning of his writing career. He said something along the lines of, "I didn't wake up on day and say, 'I am an author and I will auth." The rest of the story was quite hilarious from the way he described his original manuscript, eight hundred pages long and written on recycled paper, or his first meeting with his publisher and the impression he did of her, but what stuck with me most was that little nonexistent word "auth." Since I am currently working on a manuscript of my own, I feel a certain kinship with Brian Jacques (who is no longer with us, sadly enough), so I use it to describe what I aspire to do, I want to auth.