Today, my teacher read my story about a haunted house for a class assignment. She liked it very much and turned it in to the office to be sent into a state writing competition. An hour later, I was called to the office where the guidance counselor called my work "disturbing" and said I "need help". FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was reading my students' Halloween stories I made them write for my creative writing class in high school. One of my students wrote about attacking me. She got my street address perfect and everything. FML
Today, I had my teacher look over my essay before turning it in. He said it was extremely well-written, so I handed it in. When I got it back, the feedback he left said it was one of the worst essays he'd ever read. FML
Today, I turned in an essay after staying up late to work on it. I was away when the teacher assigned it, so I'd asked my friend what the subject was. It transpires that she'd given me the wrong one, all because she was mad at me for not returning her pencil. FML
Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? FML
Today, my new creative writing teacher informed the class that we should consult him before writing anything "dark or disturbing." I only took the class because my therapist recommended that I join the class so I could freely express my darker thoughts without her help or a fear of being judged. FML
Today, the feedback my teacher wrote on my English assignment was so horrible that it took me half an hour and help from both my parents to decipher it. It turned out to be a scathing criticism of my "poor communication skills". I hate my teachers. FML
Today, one of my classmates got bullied and the whole class got to wrote 2000 words about that. FML
Today, my teacher gave me a 0% on my personal narrative in my writing class. His only comment on the whole paper was, "Too long, didn't read." FML
Today, I got feedback on an essay I wrote, by my mum who is also a teacher. She said it was 'worse than most of her pupils'. She teaches 10-year-olds. I'm a 20-year-old student at university. FML
Today, I turned in an essay about a book I'd read over the summer. My teacher later called me to her desk and began to gush about how interesting the book sounded and asked to borrow my copy. The book I wrote about isn't real, and the main characters are named after my childhood pets. FML
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littlemonster94 15
Consider that validation that you indeed wrote a good horror story. Props to you, oh demented one!
HowieDoIt 21
I would exorcise your right to publication, otherwise this ghoul is in trouble
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Comments (77)
bishbosh 7
well what kind of writer is mentally stable? disturbed peoples come out with some of the best stuff :P
DropBearMeat 23
You should take this as a high compliment. You nailed that assignment.
Lomus 24
Sounds to me like OP's work was submitted without permission. Irrelevant yes, but probably worth noting: you don't know what else they'll do next
SomeRandomGuy15 18
25- ...What? One example makes people with head-scarves all the same?
DeadxManxWalking 27
They don't understand the power of imagination.
YesIAmPlease 4
Don't worry in fact forget what that idiot said. You could be the next Edgar Allan Poe or Edward Gorey or the next Tim Burton. The people around them probably thought that they were disturbed too but they became famous and inspired a lot of people. My guidance counselor in middle school thought I was disturbed when in class we were supposed to wright a Halloween type alphabet and I chose to wright about 26 ways to die. What a guidance counselor says ultimately means nothing so just shrug it off and start writing your next master piece. You're gonna go far in this world if you ignore the "normal" peoples criticism.
Knightchaser27 25
Neither did Edgar Allen Poe
Life_sucks_13 6
Neither did Edgar Allen Poe
Attica 20
Good for you, OP! All it means is your story was very well-written (your teacher definitely seemed to have confidence in it, as well!), as it achieved the appropriate affect--it was about a haunted house after all--it's supposed to be creepy! If it makes you feel any better, when I was in writing class in high school, I wrote some extremely disturbing poems and prose that would have landed me in the same position in the guidance counselor's office--the reason it didn't is because my writing teacher was more disturbed than I ever was! Like the other poster said, "Stephen King didn't get famous by rainbows and kittens". Neither did Koontz, Lovecraft or Poe. Most cutesy-type, positive things just don't capture people's attention in the form of the written word, the way that unnerving subjects do. The reaction to your work always depends on your audience...some people will get it, and some people won't, but either way, it will catch people's attention. Good luck with the contest, your future writing and your guidance counselor, OP! After all, the counselor is just one of the people who doesn't get it, and there are plenty of other people out there who do get it and appreciate it :)
LaffAtLife 4
Well isn't it supposed to disturbing... I don't think scary stories are about unicorns and fairies