Lamott response

According to what author Anne Lamott has to say, I would think that writing a first draft is more about the process. She talks about letting the first draft be the place “where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place” (Lamott 4). In this quote “it” is your writing and she is kind of comparing it to a child doing whatever it wants, since you go back and fix it all later. I do agree with Lamott because all of my first drafts usually aren’t the best and I kind of just word dump to start. That’s where revisions come in because when you’re working on the final draft you can pick and choose whatever you want to keep. My most recent first draft was almost six pages but then after editing I cut it down to four and a half, which was still a little long but it was a lot less nonsense. She also says that a lot of famous writers have shitty first drafts, and that a perfect piece of writing doesn’t come easy to anyone. I think this is nice to point out and realize because a lot of people tend to beat themselves up over the quality of their first draft, but the point isn’t for it to be perfect since from there you can only go up. I think that overall she emphasized that it is important to go through the process of a first draft to be able to get a solid product, which would be the final draft.