The Woes of a Writer

Oh, college. Why must your torment me so?

All right, don't take that the wrong way. I love college. I'm having a blast. But it's this all this stupid writing that I have to do that's throwing me off!

I fucking love writing, but I can only write certain things well, which are mostly things that involve telling a story. Fiction's my main forte, but I can go on and on about anything if I had to. If they had a course that just involved writing fiction and ranting, I would no doubt get an A.

It's the fucking essays and speeches and shit that are throwing me off.

I hate essays. I've always hated them and I always will. If essays are just eating someone else's information and puking it back up in your own words or directly quoted, what's the fucking point?! I've been working on this one essay since Sunday and it's due in about 8 1/2 hours. We have to have multiple drafts (so not my thing either - it's either got to be perfect the first time or it's shit - I'm extremely OCD when it comes to writing something for a grade), and we basically have to go to the "writing consultants" just so they can tell us how shitty the goddamn motherfucking thing is. Like...really? I'm a self-taught writer; I've been doing this shit for as long as I can remember. My teachers praised  my work since elementary school, and I think it's safe to say that I was one of the top writers in my class...fiction-wise. I fucking sucked at essays. I still do. And not only do I have this pain-in-the-ass essay due in a matter of hours, but I also have another one due next week, and another one due the week after.

And then come the speeches.

Here's how I role with speeches: give me a PowerPoint and some note cards and I give pretty damn good speeches. I love talking, and I don't have a problem talking in front of crowds (thank you drama club). Make me read from a manuscript and I give pretty fucking horrible speeches. Not even kidding. When I have a manuscript, I always get so caught up in talking that I lose my place and end up making myself look like a dumbass.

Ugh.

Well, that's my rant for now. I know it always seems like I'm negative on here, but truthfully, while I wait for something good, I rant about the bad.

....hey, that's not a bad quote. Nobody steal that.