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Shitty First Draft Response

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– Even the best writers have shitty first drafts
– writing down everything that comes to mind is sometimes the best way to begin
– everyone experiences writers block where they don’t know where to begin
– the first draft leads to better developed pieces of work
– it takes time to begin a piece but once you start you write everything

The author shares how she experienced writers block while sitting with some friends and how she always goes through that process of not knowing where to start to writing a few lines then deleting them to taking a break to coming back and actually starting their piece. I feel like this is every writer that doesn’t know where to begin but once you get to the stage where you start writing then there is no pausing and whatever comes to mind is written no matter how silly the paper comes out.

A question I would have would be Is there a faster method to getting your mind going instead of having to go through the process the author goes through?

The author’s purpose would be to share with the reader that every writer great or not has to start somewhere and how everyone needs shitty first drafts because from there better pieces are developed and to encourage readers to never be ashamed of their first draft because their pieces could only improve from that point.

Peak Performance Response

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The article talks about how practice makes perfect and how the need for practice has progressed from time to time. Records being broken because of the focus and dedication towards the sport. I was always told growing up that practice makes perfect and this article provides facts of how universities have conducted research to prove that point. Then it goes into specific sports such as chess to prove their points specifically within certain sports.

compelling moment within the text would be the experiment done to break through memory barriers where Dr. Ericsson and others were able to prove that the amount of hours dedicated to memorizing random numbers was a key factor in being able to actually recite all 102 numbers. It just helps to prove that idea that practice makes perfect.

could not think of a question.

The author’s purpose would be to inform readers of how practice does help break limit barriers and proves this by using actual facts like the Olympics and other sports. Also to inform the reader that with a limit barrier could be broken it only takes the sheer determination and dedication one has to put in hours of practice in any activity because everyone knows there is always room for improvement.