It seemed like what she had always wanted to do.

By night, however, she returned to her drafty house and read other kinds of texts: newspapers, mystery novels, and fashion magazines. She devoured the nutritional information on the sides of cereal boxes and wasted hours surfing for internet sites. She dreamed about reading in-flight magazines and buying next year's copy of Best American Essays. She lingered in the childrens' section at bookstores.

It didn't all make sense to her academic self, but she finally realized that things were not quite right. Her writing self was not quite in line with her reading self.

Simply put, Jane's identity as a writer was in the closet. She wanted to write other things in addition to, perhaps even instead of, academic writing.

See what happens in Tale #2 . . . when Jane tells her advisor!