Rough Drafts

 

When reading the incredibly short article Shitty First Drafts there were many things that I thought were interesting. First off when she said that she would write something just to get it done and not have it even resemble what it should is an interesting way to go about writing. When I write for my papers I usually put in a lot of thought into it as I am typing and than my second draft highly resembles my second, but for Anne Lamott she goes the route of writing her “shitty” first draft with intentions of it not being good at all.

I was able to relate a lot to her when saying that first drafts are supposed to be bad because by the title the are needing work. She puts a whole new meaning to the idea of a rough draft with statements like “just making my fingers move” When talking about writing for her first draft not caring about it because it isn't how you get to the finished product but just the quality of the final draft. Hopefully I learn a lesson from this whole experience and start doing this in my own first drafts because it would help with my problems I have with writers block. More than anything a rough draft gives you a blueprint for where your paper will go because once you have the groundwork made it will be incredibly easier to continue to work forward on what you have.

A problem I have had in papers is that I have made my “shitty rough draft” also my “shitty final draft” because I was to lazy to continue working on it, didn't think it was worth my time, and that I didn’t have the time in general. This problem may in fact be my biggest issue in my big bag of problems I have with writing. All in all shitty rough drafts make for smooth final drafts, and that if you want a quality paper maybe the best way to get to that point is to force out a shitty first draft that has little to no resemblance of your final draft because at least you got the ball rolling.