Wednesday, April 11, 2012

"Shitty First Drafts"

Anne Lamott says that a rough draft shouldn't be neat and structured. She says that a rough draft is where everything all flows out on to the paper. You can shape the draft after you regurgitate all the information. Anne is a professional writer for food reviews and she dreads starting a piece. She uses the phrase "shitty rough draft" to show that she doesn't try to hard on her drafts but structures everything later.
I relate to Anne because I hate starting a writing. I much rather do the structuring part then the actual draft. When I write I spill info out on the paper and I feel so stressed by the unorganized sentences. I'm glad someone acknowledged the "shitty rough draft".

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