One can go back and edit the draft and move certain phrases around, along with deleting and combining other sentences to create a new draft. This technique also falls into creativity because one you’re not limiting yourself to a certain agenda or topic. Secondly, by free writing you might be able to come up with an idea, which might have not been seen as logical or fitting to the topic. Lastly, Shitty first drafts and the article exploratory writing strategies are both very similar. Exploratory writing strategies, also encourages one to free write. However, in this case, they also suggest timing yourself “5 to 10 minutes when free writing” (Pica). Along with doing some mapping before one prewrite’s. However, everything else is very similar; for instance, after one freewrites the article mentions that one should go back and edit and make sense out of the freewriting session. This itself is a creative process and very similar to the technique encouraged …show more content…
Therefore, I really liked the article shitty first drafts. Moreover, what I really liked about this article was that it tells you that it’s okay to freewrite. I was always told to do an outline before any writing was done. However, often I would have ideas already running around my head that I would just end up forgetting. Furthermore, I also liked that it encourages you to write every single idea you are thinking and is does not matter how obscured the sentence or idea is because that idea could lead to another idea that one might of not come across if it wasn’t for the obscured idea. I also found Exploratory Writing strategies very helpful. Sometimes when I’m freewrtiting I get writers block and sometimes I have troubles starting the writing process itself. However, I think if I start doing a little brainstorming such as listing and mapping; it will help me overcome writer’s