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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Top comments
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)
caitlinrawrr 9
Well, he DID write a story with a zombie cat..
Tiger9099 11
Thanks zero tolerance
adam_night 9
The world isn't rainbows and sunshine, your an amateur school writer.Not Ghandi.
onorexveritas 24
I wonder how many talented writers "need help"
souljacker 11
I think you have the makings of a talented writer. Horror, as a genre, at the moment, is lacking! Get in there.
HayJay316 9
My idiot guidance consuler did the same crap for me when we had to write a scary poem for the Halloween Poetry Slam. She called my mom and everything.
rogerover 19
Disturbing is a sign of good literature.
NewKonoiche 6
Oh man, I can so relate! I remember one time I let my mom and my aunt read one of my stories and they pretty much straight up staged an intervention about how "worried" they were. It wasn't even a scary/violent story either, IIRC. People just don't seem to realize that the stories we write are fictional. Never assume the characters in the story are stand-ins for the writer. That was the very first thing I learned in my creative writing class.
Sillydeadperson 17
Well, now I kinda want to read your story. I hope the future writing goes really well, OP!
petergozinya37 8
This is exactly how Stephen King started. His college professor rejected a paper and then it was published. King had his grade changed. Congratulations on the good story!!!