First Draft

Many writers don’t come up with their stories, poems and papers in one shot, its revised many times before its published. In the article “Rethinking the shitty draft” there are ways two ways in which someone can end up with their final product. Firstly,Anne Lamott puts up a good point that writing down what ever comes to mind in the first draft and revising it later to make it perfect, however, I feel that I’m more of a George Dila person. George mentions that “When I have completed what some might call the first draft of the story, it will have already been revised a hundred times”. He makes sure his ideas/thoughts aren’t just any ideas that comes to mind but are revised and carefully picked to go into his draft. His method stands out more towards me because in Every essay guidelines, teachers ask for drafts a week or two ahead.For me once I start to write my draft I just get into it and if I stop I lose that motivation. Part of that has to do with my laziness but once I start I make sure to make it the best so its basically my final paper. Thus when I get my paper revised from my classmates or teacher there is less work to be done to my paper and that I have a week to basically relax and just make minor changes to the paper. I’ve also noticed that when I revise papers for friends that use Anne’s method in writing the first draft its sort of hard to understand their paper. Their writing isn’t smooth and its all over the place so the person revising it can’t do their job since the paper is hard to understand. But at the end of the day both methods are ways to which someone or another might end up with their final result.