Stewart Huff wanted to be an author but his path was forever altered when he started doing comedy at Brevard College in North Carolina in the early 1990s.

While the 40-year-old native of Campbellsville, Ky. writes daily, his outlet is the nightclub stage rather than the printed page.

“I’m a storyteller,” said Huff, performing at Wiley’s Comedy Niteclub, 101 Pine St., Dayton at 9 p.m. Friday and 8 and 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19-20. “I like the challenge of writing a story and I do it and it doesn’t really go well, then my job at this point is to figure out how I’m going to relate this story to 150 strangers.

“I hammer on it every night then work on it back at the hotel,” he continued. “Then I watch some ‘Golden Girls’ and go to sleep. I get up the next day and keep going. It’s a very rewarding challenge.”

Huff, a dedicated road dog, was one of three comedians featured in the new documentary film “Road Comics: Big Work on Small Stages.”

“It’s not my personality to get on a plane and fly over the interesting,” he said. “You’re missing it all. What happens from here to there is what I talk about once I get there.

“I feel perfectly at home being a hobo, transient-type of person,” Huff added. “That’s a big part of it. I have no ambitions of being in the corporate world so there’s really nothing to make me not do it.”

After living in Louisville and Los Angeles, Huff now lives on a horse farm in Winterville, Ga.

“It’s a lot easier to come up with material out there because it’s so quiet and peaceful,” he said. “It’s a lot better atmosphere to think so I’m definitely writing more. My goal for the future is to start putting some feelers out there and try to get some short stories published.”