Both “Shitty First Draft” by Anne Lamott and “Rethinking the Shitty First Draft” by George Dila describe different methods of creating a first draft. Lamott’s method of pouring out every idea you get into your first draft and then fixing it up once you are complete was the way that I use to write my essays at first. Later on, as I learned new forms of writing and expanded my writing skills, I began to take Dilas’s approach. His approach is a much more tedious approach to writing a first draft because he thinks hard about every sentence he writes. I tend to do the same thing while writing. I’m always rereading every sentence I write, making sure it looks good and thinking hard about what direction I want the next sentence or paragraph to go. I find that this works perfectly for me because I hate looking back at all of my mistakes and having to fix them one by one. Sometimes I do get an influx of ideas that I want to write about in my essays but I never let them pour out into my writing. Instead, I write the ideas down somewhere else and then come back to them when I am ready to articulate them into my writing. The one thing I tend to struggle with the most in writing is introductions or how I want to start my writing. It is the part that I spend the most time on during my essays but as I’ve progressed in my writing skills, I’ve slowly gotten better at them.