"Shitty First Drafts" - Acadia Bravo

      As far as writing goes, I personally believe that I am sub par. Reading this selection, I figured out that I am most definitely capable and not alone in my personal writing process. Anne Lamott showed me that people are capable of writing truly horrendous first drafts before being able to write other functional, even good, second and third drafts. Lamott referring to shitty first drafts in the first paragraph stating that "All good writers write them" gave me hope. Reading this lets me know that it is truly okay to write whatever comes out, that I can always revise it later, or at least until the deadline. Lamott dubbing the first draft the "child's draft" (paragraph 4) made sense to me as I always feel like what is coming out is what a second or third grader may write which consists of verbal vomit and run-on sentences.  I often struggle with putting too much pressure on myself to come up with a good first draft and now that I see even successful and amazing writers have word vomit and phrases that don’t make sense or belong, I have learned that my writing style and process is fine. What I truly took away from this is that I need to stop being so hard on myself, and that the first draft is supposed to suck.