First drafts

After reading “Rethinking the Shitty First Draft” by George Dila and “Shitty First Drafts” by Anna Lamott, I believe that George Dila’s approach best describes my strategy for drafting an essay. I agree with George Dila’s approach to writing the first draft by using trial and error to find an acceptable version of his text because I don’t like writing messy first drafts, instead I prefer to write a draft that best depicts my ideas as a whole. I find this process easier than Anna Lamott’s process because writing the first draft with a bunch of mixed ideas altogether would be difficult to organize later on and would make me forget some of the most important aspects in my essay. An example would be my research paper in high school when writing the first draft I used Anna Lamott’s method, but as soon as I began my final draft I got confused with the random order of my ideas and began to forget the most important aspects of my essay. Because of this method, I had to rewrite my ideas in an organized manner and it took an extra 3 hours to finish my essay. The process of revising and editing the first draft described by George Dila best describes my strategy for writing drafts.