Lamott “Shitty First Drafts” and P1 First Draft

For my first draft of project one, I was in my room with the lights off while listening to music. It took me about forty-five minutes. Compared to my ideal writing process, this was pretty close. The only thing that I didn’t do was write an outline. To me, it seems that this is already and outline. Writing this first draft made me feel a little bit stressed out. It took me a while to decide what my project was going to be on but once I figured it out my ideas and my thoughts just started flowing. I was, and still am, a little bit stressed because I’m not completely sure that I did it right. It will be nice to go to class with my draft and see what my other classmates did so that I can see if I am on the right track or if I need to start over. Lamott’s ideas about a first draft made me feel a lot better. She says that even experienced writers have trouble writing and they struggle to start writing. Whenever I write something I have trouble starting and getting all my ideas together. In high school, I had to write a ten page research paper. I found it very difficult to write and I was really worried that it wasn’t good. I eventually finished the first draft, turned it in, and I failed. I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to fix it a get a better grade because if I couldn’t even write a good draft then how could I write a good paper. This feeling that I had ending up coming true and I got a C on the paper. This text showed me that writing good papers just takes time. Even good writers can end up writing really bad first drafts. I just need to realize that there is always room for improvement. I shouldn’t over think and just get my ideas on to paper and go from there