I would first like to start off by saying I really admire how Anne Lamott really connected with the audience, myself and others, as readers and also writers. Lamott has proven to me that not all great books/novels/stories are made perfectly from the first try. It feels almost as if a weight was lifted knowing that I am not the only one that goes through the crazy writer’s block phase while writing a paper. It’s nice to know that it is okay to not know what exactly it is that you’re writing about until maybe the end of the first draft. I personally relate to what this article is saying because I always have one of those very shitty first drafts that Lamott speaks about. I would never actually know or be able to even stick to one topic until I’ve written and crossed out about 2-3 pages of work before starting my actual writing. From what Lamott has said, writing the first draft is more about the process as opposed to the product. The first draft really determines what way your piece will go.  I see writing is a process but also a cycle. When you become a writer, the process used to write a piece becomes a cycle.

“Very few writers really know what they’re doing until they’ve done it.” I feel that Lamott wrote this to tell readers that it is okay to not always know from the start what they are going to write about. Sometimes it takes writing multiple pages of ideas and brainstorms before we as writers can decide on one strong topic that we feel will reach out to our readers. I see paragraph 10 as words of encouragement. Lamott breaks it down by saying draft one is just to jot everything down, draft two is to revise, and draft three is the final check up.