I applaud your excellent call.

Your mom is probably telling you the sad truth: You are a no-talent hack. The good news that you should tell your mom is that there is a lot more work out there for uninspired, insipid morons who can string together banal cliches than there is for literary geniuses. They don't need the next Bill Shakespeare to write the screenplay for the next Hollywood remake sequel, to assemble truisms for motivational speakers or to ghost-write books for FOX News "personalities" (or Sarah Palin). You need to thank your mom for recognizing your lucrative mediocrity.

And to realize "spells" should be "spell". Yes, thats you bee.

maybe your paper was well written, but she did not like the topic?

YDI for being a bullshit artist. Your mom being an English major should be able to know bullshit when she sees it.

whining !!!!

I haven't seen the OP's essay and I cannot comment on its content. However, thinking one did something well in no way implies that it was, in fact, done well. It's an unfortunate fact that the only way to notice one's incompetence is to become competent, but by that point the problem has been remedied. You'll find thousands of people on the Internet who think they're good writers, but whose writing is atrocious. Go to fanfiction.net sometime and see for yourself.

Grow up and learn to take some criticism. You thought it was really good, she didn't, she's probably right. Now talk with her about it and try and learn a thing or two.

wtf #1 youre pathetic. what does a "west coast" education have to do with anything. atleast you didnt put first gotta give it to you.

Haha, we both messed up our grammar in correcting someone else! I appreciate it anyway :)