Shitty First Drafts By Anne Lamott

For the article “Shitty First Drafts” we read this week, it remained me something about writing. This is a essay written by Anne Lamott, who is the author of six novels, the food reviewer for the magazine, a book reviewer for Mademoiselle, and a regular contributor to Salon.’s .“Mothers Who Think..” She’s busy because of several occupation at the same time, but there's still a question that what made her writing attracted? In this essay we read, there may be the answer. In the “Shitty First Drafts”, Anne Lamott explained the “shitty first drafts” with details. In her opinion, “not one of them writes elegant first drafts”. Every good writer needs to do several drafts before they got the best article. She called the first draft as the “child’s draft”, meant the draft which is “no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later”. You might have a lot of child’s drafts so that you can get the best finished article. …show more content…
That was a process. An amazing article might not be some sentences on the paper, it required a lot of work to decorate the drafts again and again. Every time you try to write something, the whole process might be again. As the article said, It was “almost just typing, just making my fingers move”. When I tried to write the paper for the assignment, I had no idea at all so that I just had a horrible first draft. That’s a hard time for me to work the paper, because I tried to get the better paper at the very beginning and to have more time to do something else. That’s not correct at all, through this article we read, I realized even the best writers cannot get the best paper in one time. We do need the patience to work so that we can get the best