Has any decent essayist, in all Earth's history, ever said that they first learned their Art by way of being forced by average teachers to write essays due Monday?
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i was homeschooled and LOVED writing, i wrote over a million words as a teenager, i was, in hindsight, actually a very good writer. and when i finally had to get essays graded for short periods in my late education i got terrible grades. writing was my lowest score in the SAT
i remember my first essay a teacher graded, i poured my HEART AND SOUL into it, i was so excited to be able to share my #1 passionate skill, i wove words beautifully.
but alas, i did not follow the required essay structure (opening, etc.) i didnt know existed, and I got a D
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i very gradually learned to stop trying or get excited about writing when i was being graded. i realized they didn't actually care how much i was exploding with creativity and passion, they just were looking for basic essay structure. it destroyed all my joy of writing for them.
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(1/2) I always got in trouble for writing in school. I would start writing assignments before the teacher had gone through the process of laying out the mechanical steps to produce "good writing". I'll never forget in junior high when a teacher grabbed the paper I was writing on
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