Twenty-eight-year-old Elaine Stafford is a very successfuljournalist. ln elementary
school Elaine lovded English and always got excellent gardes
on her compositions. Everything changed when she was
in the seventh garde and her English teaclher retired.Fome
the ages of 13 to 16, her new English teacher told her that her compositions shouldn
't be si imaginative.
"Just before my 16th birthday, I realized thIat if I started writing boring vompositions,I might .get better grades. So, that's what I did...an