Once, I wrote a scene like this for Mr. Darkwood’s class to see if I could shock him with some racy teen sex, but all he did was cross out the word penning and replace it with pinning. I scribbled all over it and wrote penning means to shut in, as if in a pen, not the same thing as pinning. He responded with the comment: writing for shock value, no substance. I got an F. Pretty sure he was just being petty.
