Backseat Writing

Throughout the course of this class the idea of writing with a partner or co writer has come up a number of times and I thought "Hmmm that's an interesting way of writing, maybe I should try it. How hard could it be?" well for the first time I did just that a few nights ago and the word "frustrating" just doesn't seem strong enough . A few nights ago my girlfriend asked me to help her write a short essay for her English class so obviously I agreed without any idea what I was getting myself into. We started off okay but soon it was one argument after another. Flaws that I considered basic were habits for her that she refused to break. Repetitive use of the same word, sentences that made no sense, rambling on and on about nothing, and repeating the same point in different ways. And for some reason that one thing that pushed me over the edge is this. If she misspelled a word at the beginning of a sentence she deleted the entire thing to go back to correct the mistake rather than just move the courser over to it. Little things that annoy me such as these had proven me horribly wrong. I don't know if I could ever write with a partner the way I did that night because then I thought "Just the errors in the wording made me mad. Can you imagine writing with someone who wanted to change your own story?" I'm sorry but that does not happen. I myself think that if someone tells me the wording is wrong or that something doesn't make sense in my writing most of the time I will listen. But if I have just finished what I believe is perfect and someone tells me to change it? I won't change a damn thing. If a teacher was to give me an essay to write about what I believe on a certain matter giving me option A or option B and I think something other than the two, I am not going to lie and write about something I don't believe in. I'll watch her take the points off my grade with a smile on my face because I will write what I want to and will not be told what to think let alone write by anyone. I am very serious when it comes to my ideas and thoughts about what I think I should write and how I should write it, therefore I don't think I could write with anyone who's opinions I don't respect and I learned that the hard way with my girlfriends English paper. But then again, maybe it was the fact that I chose to write with my girlfriend...