Blog #2: Shitty First Drafts

I never thought I'd come across a topic so relatable to my writing experience. Anne Lamott has truly captured my attention within the second paragraph of this chapter. "Bird by Bird" seems like it can influence anyone to write and make mistakes even if they are not a writer. Lamott writes that we need to write those "shitty first drafts" in order to create an essay from them that will eventually form into an amazing piece of work. Without first drafts we'd have nothing to work from, which is why they are highly significant. Personally, I've written at least a hundred first drafts in my life and have changed the essay around so many times that they don't even look the same, but still send the same message, and even writing a layout for a first draft helps anyone writing an essay in the end, which is what I tend to do 95 percent of the time. I am definitely not a writing major or anything that pertains to writing, but the best writers write at least one shitty first draft per essay. The development of a first draft is what makes any persons essay. So write a shitty first draft or two, and critique what you've written so your final essay comes out on top!