"Shitty First Drafts"

I believe in rough drafts making successful writing and use them with most writing assignments. However, the way that Anne Lamott portrayed what a rough draft really is opened my eyes to the benefits of it. My rough drafts are still very confined to the boundaries of normalcy and are only skimmed through for grammar mistakes or enhanced sentence-structure/word-choice. Lamott writes freely with the idea that some pieces within the mess will be seen during a reread and used to create the final product. I like that idea because, like Lamott explained, what you write is effected by many things so it is important to record all of your ideas while they are still thoughts in your head. I will definitely consider being more boundless when writing my initial drafts of papers but only if I need to because of writers block. I am confident in my own style of writing papers because it has worked for me thus far.

As a side note, I enjoyed lamott's style of writing. It seemed professional yet informal and I really sensed her presence within the text. She was funny, relatable, and extremely credible on the subject when explaining her own professional experiences with writing. One thing that stuck out to me was the imagery used when she was explaining how people think successful writers sit down to write. After finishing the reading, I was curious to see what her original draft of this text looked like.