Week 3 Response

In “Shitty First Drafts” Anne Lamotts writing style vividly makes her point about the frustrations in writing the first draft. Lamott explains the feelings that she goes through when she starts writing. Every writer goes through the frustrations that Lamott writes about in her essay.
Lamott goes into talking about how people think that writing is so simple. Lamott writes “the fantasy of the uninitiated” which means that these people think that writers write the work in one shot and what they write is good to go and get published. The people who think that are usually inexperienced with writing. In reality when writer sits down to write they usually hit a writers block and do not know where to start, and this is where the get their “shitty first draft”. Lamott talks about the process of writing the first draft as the “child’s draft” meaning that you will shape it later; as if the paper is a child that needs help in order to grow up. Lamott learned that the process of the first draft was something that was going to happen no matter what, and just accepted that her first draft was not going to be the best. Yet at the same time she still wanted that first draft to be perfect.
Every writer has the first draft expectations that they do not meet, which lead to the second draft. In order to write a writer must start from scratch and then fix the errors. The first draft is always the worst to write, I usually do not know where to start, not happy with the first sentence, and get the sentences in a paragraph backwards. But without the rough draft their would be nothing but an empty space. No matter how long you have been writing their will always be that “shitty first draft” that you toss in the paper shredder and put in the recycle bin. Lamotts essay opened my eyes about the first draft that I always get frustrated with. She made it very easy to read without dragging on.