Wow! This article makes me feel so much better about writing a first draft! This article is taken from author, Anne Lamott, and her book Bird by Bird. The depiction is intended to give anyone the courage to write a first draft. Better yet it is much better to get that crappy first draft out. That no matter how terrible it is, you have to get it out on the table. Lamott makes a great reference, she says, "The first draft is the child's draft." She then goes into detail about this by saying just go with every childish inner thought you have. But why start a first draft with the thought that you know it will be atrocious? Well, because almost always you learn from your mistakes. And when you roll around to the second draft you'll know exactly what to do. This makes sense to me, there has been many times where I have sat down to write an essay. A one time, get an A+ on the first shot kind of essay. It's nerve wrecking and could take hours. So why not write a crappy essay really fast and have the second come out better? Sounds good to me. Anne Lamott says in her book, " You need to start somewhere, get anything down on paper." This was a great article to start out a Writing 095 class with.
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