Anne Lamott spoke on the different stages of the writing process. She emphasized that the first draft of each written piece is usually shitty but gives the assurance that the piece will get better as you continue revising. She also gives personal examples of her writing process while writing for California magazine. Her conclusion to Read more about Discussion Post #6 Response : Chardell Park[…]

         Reading ‘Mama Day’ reminded me of a book or movie from childhood where everything looks like a fairy tale but a fairy tale with very believable things that could exist. For example Willow Springs, funny thing is that every fairy tale must have own mysterious place , the description about Willow Springs reminded me of Read more about Mama Day description by Artem Lozovtsov[…]

Writing is an art and like any other form of art, it requires patience, determination and hard work, if one intends to master it. People have been writing throughout centuries, however, the quality of writing enhanced and improved by the emergence of every new generation, with all the tips, tricks and patterns they left behind. Read more about Shitty First Drafts – by Syed M. Shahmir Zaidi[…]

In Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts,” she points out that in order to create really good pieces of writing, you have to go through the process of writing really bad first drafts. She explains how first drafts should be a collection of all your thoughts and that they are not permanent; you can fix and Read more about Discussion Post #6 – Ramandeep Kaur[…]

In Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts”, she emphasizes the importance of writing your first draft the way you want to. No one is going to read it except for you. It’s okay to add whatever you want to it. After writing your first draft, you would go ahead and write your second draft, which would be Read more about Discussion Post #6 by Mauricio Guidos[…]

In this piece Anne Lamott talks about the writing process. How not all great writers are just great. Ms. Lamott explains how writing is a process. She talks about how most of the time writers don’t even know what they are doing until it done. Ms. Lamott also talks about how she writes. She says Read more about Shitty First Drafts by Usman Choudhary[…]

In Ann Lamott’s excerpt called Shitty First Drafts, she explains how having a first, second and even third draft is an essential method to having a good piece of writing. She talks about how even the best authors have shitty first drafts and this makes them better authors. The first draft is meant for you Read more about Shitty First Drafts – Jaylen Salvatto[…]

In this reading, Anne Lammot explains to the readers that bad first drafts are necessary to making an amazing final paper. She starts off the reading by telling us that she knows many famous writers and all but one have to go through the rigorous process of making multiple bad drafts. She explains that writing Read more about Shitty First Draft Post by Mabel Sosa[…]

To summarize what the author Anne Lamott said in her essay, writing ( in general) is a complicated and stressful process. Any ordinary person will struggle and be stress out at the idea of writing, regardless of it being a book, an article, essay, or just a block response like this one. I use the Read more about Shitty First Draft By Paul monthe[…]

During the reading of “~Shitty drafts, ” I felt it was useful how the author went through the stages of writing. In stating that very few writers knew what they’re doing was re-assuring. Also, when the author broke down the first draft as the “Childs draft” was very interesting. People don’t really express the writing Read more about Malcolm Obiri-Yeboah- Discussion post 6[…]