Shitty First Drafts

           Throughout high school, my teachers reinforced the idea that first drafts did not need to be perfect; yet, when grading the outline of my first draft essays then often gave me low marks. With this in my head, I believed that first drafts needed to be perfect and polished. Looking back on that concept after reading "Shitty First Drafts" I can see how silly that idea was. This article displayed that one's first essay is not going to be perfect nor should it be. Most of the time the first try is going to be terrible but it is the foundation of the essay. The first draft allows us to get all of our crazy and wacky ideas out on the page and sometimes those ideas are amazing and innovative: without that first draft, we would not have allowed ourselves to let those concepts out. The article "Shitty First Drafts" demonstrated that writing is a difficult task and first drafts do not need to be flawless and the importance of getting one's ideas on the page.