Introduction to Composing as a Process
Writing is a long and often strenuous process rather than a product. Good writing requires a set of different skills since it involves planning, drafting, and revising our work. Writing is a lot of work and needs to be practiced often as it not only helps us to express our ideas but also form new ones.
Freewriting
Freewriting is an exercise that places emphasis on simply getting words down on a paper. It is sometimes called “babbling” exercises since it is about just writing, completely ignoring coherence and any real sort of meaning. It’s meant to be just raw thought. Freewriting is supposed to be helpful since it encourages creativity and relieve writer’s block as words come to mind more easily.
Shitty First Drafts
A first draft isn’t meant to be good. It’s just an initial way of getting words and ideas onto paper. When writing the first draft of a paper, it doesn’t matter if it’s completely coherent, has errors, or doesn’t thoroughly convey what you’re trying to say since it’s meant to be revised and perfected until, eventually, it’s a good piece of writing.
Response
All these texts emphasize the creativity and concept of improvement involved in the writing process. I strongly agree with the text “Freewriting” when it mentioned that school often makes us too focused on mistakes and errors we make. There should be focus on the creativity need and how to actually get ideas on paper rather than making sure it’s correct, especially since errors can be fixed later on in the writing process.