Anne Lamott and George Dilias ways of writing drafts are distinct. Lamott likes to gather all her ideas on paper in any way since organization doesn’t matter to her. Dilia on the other hand is more organized and only looks to improve on his work. My writing process is much like Lamotts.. Whenever I start my work it is usually last minute either because I am busy with work and other assignments or I am just lazy at the time. I always have the habit of leaving work last minute regardless because I always think I’ll have the time to do it the next day and this continues until the day it is due. When I start doing the work I always have trouble with the introduction paragraph. It seems difficult to think of something from someone else’s perspective. I always think of either starting out with a question or important fact to attract the reader and make them think about it. So I would write everything but the introduction. When I later come back to the introduction it helps me think of something to connect to the second paragraph. I would consider this a main part in the essay because if the introduction won’t make the reader interested they don’t want to read everything else. Although it’s not the best writing process it has helped me. The pressure of having to do the introduction first makes me waste more time on it and causes more stress as well.
You are not alone in struggling with introductions. I find that the best way to deal with this problem is either to skip over the introduction and then come back to it once you’ve written the body of the essay and know what you want to say or to take a more Anne Lamott approach and write a really quick and crummy introduction, with the understanding that it’s just a place-holder and that I will come back and fix it later.