Shitty First drafts- Phillip Beck

     The purpose of shitty firsts draft was very clear to me; Writing a shitty first draft is not easy, but it does make writing the rest of the paper easier. The concept of writing a really shitty first draft as a way to just get the words onto a page has never before seemed helpful to me. However, after reading about a writer that uses shitty first drafts as a way to make sure they get all the information they have down so that they can improve it later, I have revised my opinion on drafting. If I take the time to write out all the information I have on the topic and just cut it down after, I can vastly increase the quality of my writing while possibly shortening the time it takes to write it. The true usefulness of the skill of drafting is to be able to get the words you want down on the paper. According to the author it seems that the hardest part of writing is not the research or even the writing style of the paper, but simply getting the words down on the paper. By using a draft as a form of stream of consciousness regurgitation of all the facts and information you have, you can make the job of writing much quicker. This is because once you have the information down all it takes to improve the piece is to remove some junk while keeping in the good stuff.