Writing Sorrows

When I think of someone having a negative writing experience, I think of a bad grade. If you did not get a bad grade on a paper that you have written then why would you not be satisfied with it. I just do not see how it can be negative really. Now that I said that, I have this thought that maybe a negative writing experience is writing about something negative, but that is a far off thought so lets get back to that bad grade.

The first time I ever took English 101 I struggled. I was at the point that I hated school and could care less if I went or not. I was more into the night life and work above all else. Let me remind you that I did not go away to school to learn. I went away as I thought it may be my only opportunity to move somewhere else and get a fresh start other than my hometown(technically it's a city). Back to the paper now...I had to do some research and write about poker. Not just the strategics of it but also the art of it. Unfortunately I was not one of the first to the library and there were no more poker books to check out. I was screwed. I could only cite one website for this paper as well. I know how to play somewhat but I did not history, or facts, or the "art". I had restarted this paper over and over. I ended up asking one of my roomies to help me. She and I worked on it for a really long time. She was trying to help me by what I was telling her it was about and she too was not that great with English. This whole thing was because I had procrastinated. We did end up completing it. It was a little short but seemed decent to me.

Low and behold I got the paper back....I got a 1% on it. I dont know how you give someone a 1% as a grade. I probably would have just given myslef a zero and been done with it. Apparently I had missed the point of the paper and had turned it into more opinoin verses research. I had limited resources so I did the best with what I had at the time. It was some what commical though. I had never met anyone in my life that had gotten a grade like that. Needless to say I ended up dropping the class before the semester was over. I saved the paper for a long time just as a reference but with my 1 millionth move I finally parted with it. It was time to consolodate and only keep things that were going to take me forward.