Am I Illiterate?

Well… obviously not, but just hear me out.

So usually i’m quite an able person, i’m pretty brainy, good at most stuff that involves using my head, except, when I sit down in front of an essay I can’t for the life of me write anything. It’s like I just sit there. Often I never get round to writing it, I just put it off, but a lot of the time I can just sit in front of an essay for literally an hour and get the best part of four lines written. I mean don’t get me wrong, I can write perfectly fine for anything that doesn’t involve the whole essay process.

It’s really starting to annoy me now though, I failed two years of 6th form because I couldn’t articulate a single assignment. None of the teachers quite understood what was going on – I was one of the brainy kids for christs sake! I know what you’re probably thinking, ‘How can he be brainy if he can’t write an essay?’ I’ve never been able to write them. When I was 10 I wrote a poem at my school which was published in a book. I used to read like a ruddy trooper when I was younger, and now, to be honest, I can’t even read. Well I can read, I just can’t initiate it if you know what I mean.

I wrote for The Heroes Chronicles for a year entirely single-handedly. Must’ve have written the good part of half a million words, so why can’t I write a single essay?!

Well there you go, a strange insight into my life. You probably didn’t understand a single thing I said.

Rob.