A. I feel Lamott is trying to say that writing that first draft is about the process. This is because writing the first draft allows you to put down all your ideas and plans on the paper, that way you see everything laid out in front of you. Writing those first drafts can also help you to pull out what doesnt work and highlight things you can leave out. Without this, the product would be a mess and incoherent. Those shitty first drafts make the end result brilliant and well thought out because time was taken for it to be crafted to perfection.
B. ‘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’. I feel like these lines are significant because it highlights how carefree one can be when writing a first draft. Like a young child, while writing a first draft you are free to make mistakes and learn from them without being judged. The line is basically saying that by taking a more childlike and free approach, you can get results you probably would not have thought of by taking a more structured route. Without the mistakes of your first draft, the chances of your final writing being mediocre are very high.
C. I would label this genre an informative narrative because she is talking about her personal experience with writing while giving us writing tips at the same time. She gives us examples on how writing first drafts has helped her in her personal life.
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