"Shitty first drafts"

             In this article, Anne Lamott describes how some of the world’s greatest writers don’t just sit down and write a perfect book inn one sitting, it takes shitty drafts to become a writer. She describes how she ended up trusting the process of writing boring first drafts to get an even better outcome of finalizing a review/paper. Through high school I always believed my first draft was the most important because it was the basis for all my ideas I was going to write about. After reading this article, I learned that first drafts are supposed to be free writing and to not worry so much if it is not perfect. Having a rough first draft that isn’t amazing, doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world. It can be scribble scrabble, abbreviations, and bad handwriting because only you will see it. Having a bad first draft actually means the potential of becoming a better writer and having a more solid foundation of writing for your second, third, and final draft.