>loved creative writing when i was a kid
>stopped doing it and didn't pick it up again until college
>realized i learned to hate writing because the only time writing was brought up was so we could maximize our scores for the standardized tests

I talked to other people and they felt the same way. They usually didn't allot much time so the essays we wrote were more speed writing exercises. We would get our papers back 2-4 weeks later with a number on it and no feedback.