Whats Up With Shitty Drafts?
You would think that most successful writers are able to make the perfect first draft every time they sit down to write. Well that assumption is both incorrect and correct at the same time. Anne Lamott stated that all good writers write terrible first drafts, which in return leads to having better second and third drafts. The idea behind this is that when you let your “childlike” part of your mind control your writing it gets the basic ideas and thoughts onto the paper that is typically longer than what you need and will often have small parts that are amazing material for the writing. Then you go and remove the not so good parts of the draft and condense it down. This idea combined with the small pieces of exceptional writing, is why i believe that your “shitty draft” isn’t all that shitty at all, and is actually a “perfect” draft to start with.
