For many of us writing can be a difficult thing to do. We may sit in from of the computer screen, staring, empty minded without of clue to where to start or what to do. In some we may have many different thoughts running through our mind but we just don’t know how cases to put those words together in coherent sentences. According to Anne Lamott, the best way to get past this is to write a “shitty first draft”. This first draft is where you just pour everything out, keep writing even if it doesn’t make any sense when it’s all together in the end. This allows you to be able to have all your thoughts written down in one place and when you go back you may find interesting points to then focus your writing on. After re-reading the shitty first draft you wrote, you then can go back and revise on the points of writing that make sense with your topic. For Anne Lamott, she says its best to have three drafts of your writing. In each draft you continue to work to make the writing better than the previous time, fixing up any little mistakes. In the end, your “shitty first draft” will eventually grow to be the final draft of your work.
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