Shitty First Drafts

The article "Shitty First Drafts" by Anne Lamott describes how crucial it is for a writer to make a first draft before trying to complete their work. A first draft is a place to messily lay down all of your ideas where nobody can see them before refining it into something great. She says that you often end up coming up with things you never would have if you had tried to write by "rational adult means".

I think that it is important to lay out all of your ideas before the final draft so that you can properly pick a direction. We are often blinded by thinking of one thing we need to write about rather than all of the directions our writing could take. In the future I think that I will definitely make more first drafts than I previously have.