About Me!

My name is Ashleigh Maree Lack.

I am currently 19 years old.

DOB: 04/03/1989

Contact details: email: tqq6334@aut.ac.nz

Occupation: Student at AUT (Auckland University of Technology).
I am currently Studying a Bachelor of English, including doing a few Communication papers.

My dream job is to write for a magazine company.

I am from a very small town where there was not a lot of things to do so I had many hobbies. They included writing, photography, sport (mainly soccer) and a few other things..

A main passion of mine has always been to write, I like to be able to tell my readers a story and keep them informed...

When I started doing the I-Reflect class, I straight away thought of doing something with writing, to show my readers how passionate I was about it.
Last year in year 1 at uni we did an assingment of "Fan-Fiction" and I really enjoyed it so I decided to carry that fa-fiction on and further it through my e-portfolio..

I thought writing my own "Fan-Fiction's" would help benefit me in later life, for carrer opportunities. Because I want to work in the magazine field, of course you need to know how to write well so I thought by showcasing my "Fan-Fictions" through my e-portfolio I could show future employers the work I have done so far.
I also did my e-portfolio on "Fan-Fiction" because like I said before it a passion of mine. Since I was little I have always enjoyed writing stories. To me it is extremely important for stories to be truthful, when I read some magazines I don't know whether they story is true or its completely made up. I have also always had a fasinaction with real life drama stories like tragedies. They have always inticed me and I feel that if I got my dream job of writing for a magazine company that is the sort of stories I would want to write for the readers, I feel those are the stories that are important not things like "the new puppy Paris Hilton has brought for her collection".

I thoroughly enjoyed writing my "Fan-Fiction's" throughout the semester, even though I believe in writing truthful stories it was fun to be creative and write things that might never happen but in my head they came to life and it was like I was the script-writer for the shows.
I could also see myself doing work along those lines as well, I have always wanted to be able to help others and if writing for a television programme could be ok because my messages would get out to the country through watching the programme.
Like in Home and Away, they deal with many dramas like AIDS, teen pregnancies and deaths. They are all common things that occur in everyones lives around the world and I believe by showing them on the television programmes it does help some people understand more about it.