Category: Unit 1 (Page 3 of 28)
“Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott
| TEXT/QUOE | Agree / Disagree or My response |
| “think that they sit down at their desks every morning feeling like a million dollars, feeling
great about who they are and how much talent they have and what a great story they have to tell”. |
I agree because sometimes we think that people who have created their own things live better with their money. But we don’t even think they’ve all suffered a lot in their lives. |
| “One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, “It’s not like you don’t have a choice, because you do — you can either type, or kill yourself.” | My response is sometimes I feel the same way about myself like why I have to do this even if I don’t want to or should I go somewhere that onebody isn’t here so I can be free but you just can. |
| “You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something — anything — down on paper”. | I agree with this because in life you have to start somewhere. Even if you don’t know what to do, just do what you like to do so one day you can end up being acquainted with somethings in your life. |
| “all I had to do was write a really shitty first draft, of lets say the opening paragraph”. | My response is sometime if i want to write an essay and i don’t have any idea about what to write i just write what comes to my mind everywhere in my paper then collect all the pieces together. |
| Text/ Quote | Response |
| If one of the characters wants to say, “Well, so what, Mr. Poopy Pants?” you let her. No one is going to see it. If the kid wants to get into really sentimental, weepy, emotional territory, you let him. Just get it all down on paper because there may be something great in those six crazy pages that you would never have gotten to by more rational, grown-up means. | On many occasions when I write I notice that sometimes writing certain random words or phrases ticks a switch in my head, which allows ideas to come flooding in and it becomes very easy to connect my ideas together and have strong outcomes overall. Like Anne Lamott said these ideas might have never existed through “rational/ grown-up” means. |
| Even after I’d been doing this for years, panic would set in. I’d try to write a lead, but instead I’d write a couple of dreadful sentences, XX them out, try again, XX everything out, and then feel despair and worry settle on my chest like an x-ray apron. | While I haven’t been writing professionally as in a career, I do face the same feelings. I think that it’s partly due to the pressure we put on ourselves. For example, while a food blogger might feel pressured to come up with a perfect food review as it will pay for his food/ bills, I, as a student might feel pressured to write a perfect essay to get the grades I want. |
| I’m not going to be able to get the magic to work this time. | Sometimes while writing under certain circumstances, A.K.A. one hour before the assignment is due, it feels like magic the way ideas come to mind. |
| A friend of mine says that the first draft is the downdraft — you just get it down. The second draft is the updraft — you fix it up. You try to say what you have to say more accurately. And the third draft is the dental draft, where you check every tooth, to see if it’s loose or cramped or decayed, or even, God help us, healthy. | I think this is very informative and can help me when I am feeling stuck or lost, I will keep this in the back of my mind when writing to hopefully help me keep on track and always be prepared. |
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