Metacognition: Short Story

Writing this short story was a rather tenuous process for me. The relative amount of time I've spent writing daily probably peaked around third or fourth grade, so, as you can imagine, I'm perpetually rusty in my ability to frame, illustrate, and inform, especially in fictional or semi-fictional contexts. Therefore, my thought process was somewhat hindered by inability to express those results in writing, but I think it forced deeper introspection on how to deal with those challenges.
Mr. Allen gives challenging feedback during creative processes. This challenge was compounded with a slight lack of determined direction for me, as I wasn't quite sure how I wanted my story to work or what the central conflict was. Whatever stuck in my first draft, I was given the help needed to shave and smooth it down to something operable. I noticed that in my thought process, despite my initial lack of direction, I tended to want to stick to the story as outlined in the first draft, despite knowing it wasn't directed or perfected, which disappointed me.
These problems were solved in the end by a conference with the above-referenced English teacher, and I feel like that is a course of action to stick to in the future, since there can be no synthesis without both a thesis and an antithesis.