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In “Shitty First Draft” published in Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life on 1995, author Anne Lamott explains that every good writing has a shitty first draft. To support her position, first, Lamott describes what the shitty first draft is. Lamott indicates that the shitty first draft is the child’s draft and she will be the only one to seeing it. She also consider the first draft to be the down draft – get everything down. Next, she reviews her first draft with a colored pen and makes her correction to write her second draft. She considers the second draft to be the up draft – fix it up. Finally, she explains how she deals with the voices in her head. A hypnotist has given her an exercise of imagining each voice to be a mouse

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