Thursday, February 27, 2014

SWA Shitty First Drafts

HW 2/27 Shitty First Drafts

            Shitty First Drafts by Ann Lamott capitalizes on the importance and value to writing a first draft, most usually shitty ones. Initially, the author describes the importance of having the will to write and overcoming any mental obstacles we may present ourselves with. With our will, she explains, we must allow ourselves to write something we hate now but can clean up later. She makes a pretty dope nod to George Orwell’s 1984 in relation to the voices in our head when writing our first drafts. Overall Lamott explains the universal problem we all face when writing first drafts and advises us to push through them and use some techniques to make it easier.     

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