I ' m drunk and bitter today . Holidays and I don ' t get along . But in all seriousness , you ' re overthinking this . Just write . If you don ' t believe me , check the archives over at rwriting . Do your best and hand it in , and do better next time . You ' re right statistically , what you ' ve got so far isn ' t very good . Most people aren ' t good writers . But that ' s why you ' re in school . It ' s just an assignment . You ' ll barely remember this in 20 years . Just write , do your best , and move on . Life ' s just not that big of a deal . The ending is sad , and very predictable . Try to write something that makes another writer want to contribute a sequel . <| sep |> This is weird , can ' t we just swear at each other ? I mean , this is the internet for god ' s sake . Where aren ' t our manners ? Yeah , I ' d agree again , and it ' s mostly a question of emphasis . If you read the Daily Mail , you ' d think half the population were immigrant benefits cheats , that welfare abuse is rampant and the main social and economic drag on society . I ' m not saying it ' s not a problem , but it ' s massively overplayed . What ' s really lacking is the common understanding that everything has failure modes , and that both the Left and Right need each other in order to continually keep away from them . Instead , we have this partisan intransigence . Personally , though , I think that people need opportunity , and will naturally rise to it if given the chance . There ' ll always be people who abuse the system , but if the system concentrated more on carrots than sticks , we ' d all be the better for it .