"Shitty First Drafts"-Isabel Hambric

As someone who often feels like perfection is expected from the get go, this article was an eye opener. What the author wrote about first drafts displaying good but messy ideas to paper, that often one feels insecure about, is the way I expect a lot of students feel. A good realization can be made from this text that what is most important about writing is, letting go and relieving your ideas from your brain, no matter if they make sense yet or not. It is nice to think even the authors of beloved books like Harry Potter or The Great Gatsby, are the result of what once was a "Shitty First Draft," and with time, perseverance and many other drafts they became well recognized pieces of literature. I seem to think the thought of sitting down and writing a first draft is worse then the time you actually spend writing it.