Katherine Kumpf
ENC 2135
Anne Lamott goes into detail about the importance of first drafts when writing essays. She explains how she knows some amazing writers, and how they write terrible first drafts at times and end up with amazing pieces of writing. Lamott writes "The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time". By saying this emphasizes the idea that it takes time to get the right sentences. Great writers take a lot of time to make sentences flow together to make a piece of literature. She explains how she wrote her food reviews when she worked for the magazine in California. She states how the first draft is known as the childs' draft. In the first draft you just write a bunch of stuff down, just to write something. This draft also tends to be a lot longer than the final product. She says to write down everything on the first draft, just in case there is something amazing surrounded by lots of bad writing. She tells the audience how she edits her second draft, by eliminating anything bad, or irrelevant to the topic. This article is significant because it shows how the best pieces of writing can evolve from the worst first drafts. It encourages young writers to not worry about having a well written first draft.
The idea of a first draft can be very intimidating, and you help with the understanding that a shitty first draft can help more than it can hinder. Explaining the process she goes through as she edits her drafts also helps give more strength to this discussion, showing the audience an overview of what is to be expected when writing.
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