It was a dark and stormy night...

I remember writing stories as a child that started with exactly this beginning, or even "It was a dark and stormy (insert date here) night.... I think this is the first time ms.I gave us an actuall topic, and we still complained. Well, its imposible to please us unless she took us to the volleyball game. As a child, i used the topic to usually write a horror or a mystery story, but they always suked. My best story that i have ever written i think was during Grade.7, since that was when we got to write a story about anything WE wanted. My story, luckily, did not start with "it was a dark and stormy night" or anything of that sorts. Instead, my story was similar to the movie "The Core". In the movie, a group of expeditioners try to reach the core of the earth. That was actually the only similarity between my story and the movie. I didnt even know about the movie until about 3 months after i handed in my assignment. For some reason, i write better stories if it is based on nothing, because then it lets my imagination flow, and i dont have to worry of it being to similar to another story, since i dont know one. Thats why i kinda stopped reading books in Grade.9, because most of the time it took away my imagination (so did video games) and when i wrote a story about something, i thought about the movie or book that was similar to it, and try to dramastically change it around. I find that the worst part of being a writter, because i like using my imaginiation to create new characters, new worlds, new thoughts, emotions, and gods. What i dont like is that if i write something that is even somewhat similar to another story, i go blank trying to come up with another one. So, now i am stuck of what i should write, and its really killing me, because now i am reminded of how my imagination has gotten worse and worse. The worst part is now i try to think everything out logically, so that it would actually happen like that in real life. I think that is why i have to make up a