Shitty First Draft

Have you ever struggle writing a paper, or a story? Anne Lamott had wrote this short article called, "Shitty First Draft." She expressed her feeling that we are not all perfect on the first draft we wrote. She also said that we can come up with billions of idea and we don't know how to write it down. She told us to let it go and just do it, just write it down on a piece of paper. Many of us want to be the most successful writer, we just have to work hard to get there. Few of us dream of writing down the most perfect words in perfect sentences in perfect paragraphs into creating a perfect story. But they can not all happen in a shitty first draft you wrote. Once you finish a paper, it need to go through few processes. You need to read what you wrote or let others read it and see if there any editing that needs to be done, or you have created more ideas you want to put into your story or delete some sentences. After that process is done, then you do the third draft and have few touch ups and then your paper is perfecto and done. When then next time you need to work on another paper, the process starts all over again. Anne used to write food reviews for California magazine. She would go to few different restaurants with few of her friends. Her friends pick a meal off the menu and Anne would write down what her friends' opinion were after they taste the meal. She would write down quotes, their expression when they tasted it, were they happy with it or not happy with it, and all kinds of questions. After that was done, she would look down at her paper and see her shitty first draft. She then would sit at her desk and write and make few touch ups and editing on her second draft and third draft. And then her reviews were nicely done. She advice us that we all need to take a break from our writing. We don't want our mind to get all to crammed up or too tiring. We want to be excited about writing a paper, and when you're excited, the paper will look wonderful and yourself will feel good about about the accomplish you have done.

I absolutely agree with Anne Lamott, "Shitty First Draft" article. There are million times that I have a lot of different ideas I have but don't know how to write it down or want to make my paper perfect the first time I write it. After I read the article, I knew we would make few mistakes along the way when writing a paper. I have others to help me edit my first draft or telling me their opinion of the paper to me. I have learned my mistakes from reading the first draft and fixing it in the second draft and third draft. I do believe that if we go through the process of writing, editing, creating more ideas or deleting some words or sentences, our paper would be a perfect third draft rather than a shitty first draft.