Terry
College writing professor, novelist
You might be interested to know I failed college English three times. I hated it--everything about it. I didn’t see the point of being forced to study a language I had been speaking my entire life. Every time I went to write an assignment, I would choke, not sure of the tone I wanted to take, or how to go about starting, so I wound up turning in nothing, or something I had cranked out an hour before class, then wonder why I couldn’t pass. I took an English class that changed my life--I kno...