Shitty First Drafts
Anne Lammott
I think that this reading was very important to my development as a writer this semester. I personally get very frustrated when my first draft isn’t great, so I will spend extra time working on it so it is a good first draft. For a long time, I felt that when I had to do a draft of a paper and turn it in, that I would get a bad grade because it wasn’t well written, and didn’t always make sense. While in high school, this was probably true, this reading helped me understand that it is okay to not have a great first draft, that it’s actually normal! As Anne Lamott said “very few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it.” I truly understood what she meant, and no longer feel bad if my first draft isn't my absolute best! When you think about it, the reason we have multiple drafts is to improve our writing over time!