Ivan Ramirez

 

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Shitty First Draft Summary



 

 

 

"Shitty First Draft" Ann Lamott says that it is okay to have a bad first draft when you are writing. She says that it is part of the process when it comes to writing. Ann says that everybody believes that great writers do not go through struggles, that they just magically write masterpieces and write great in general, when actually they go through the same struggles that we do. Throughout the article she talks about her struggles with writing and talks about how bad her first draft usually is. Ann would say that her first draft would be way too long sometimes and I  some occasions way too short. The message that she wants to send out through this article is that it is okay to have bad first drafts because that's what first drafts are for. All the editing and perfecting doesn't come until the second and final draft.