Tuesday, October 27, 2009

I am an Epic Fail

I am a published writer, as in books. Don't let my typos fool you.

I am the person who took graduate level English Classes in undergrad for fun, sometimes 2 at the same time when I needed "cheese" classes.

I am the person who had their papers used as examples for other students on the CORRECT way to write a paper.

I just got my first Memo back for review from my legal writing teacher. I haven't seen this much ink on one writing assignment in my entire life. My lofty sense of writing talent fell to the ground like a deflated balloon (don't worry, there wasn't a 6 yr old in it!).

I am the person who thought they could write, but apparently was mistaken.

I am epic fail....

*sigh*

Now, its a pride issue that I have to turn in the final draft of the memo that is AWESOME.... will keep you updated.

2 comments:

Law Ingenue said...

If it makes you feel any better, I had the same experience with my first year research memo draft. And I was a published writer before law school.

I ended up with an A in the class at the end of the term, but only after several revisions.

Legal writing and all other writing are from two different planets. The only connection they may have is punctuation, and even that is iffy.

Hang in there.

~Sue said...

That actually does make me feel better. I read through the memo again and am able to see that there is little correlation between English class and legal writing. I had just never had to worry about my writing before. I guess my ego was due for a bit of deflation :)