My views on the writing process have changed since reading “shitty first drafts”. The reason my views have changed is because in high school, the teachers would always make it seem like our first drafts have to be important. They don’t treat it as a learning process or as something that I can gain ideas from , instead they call it lazy and look for the mistakes and redundant uninteresting things. Now I realize that first drafts are a way for writers to figure out what direction they want to go in when it comes to progressing their story. Lamott’s writing process contrast to mine because she actually doesn’t take her first draft seriously , she sees it as a way to write whatever she wants because she knows no one is gonna be able to view it. In my first draft I try to write the best I can and then hand it to someone to see what I can improve on. I also don’t look back at my first draft and try to draw inspiration from it which is something that Lamott does. The steps in her process that I don’t use is writing the draft as something that isn’t serious. I also don’t look back at my drafts and try to find something interesting and add it into my new draft. The step I would consider adding into my new writing process is getting all my ideas out in the first draft and finding the main thing that looks interesting to me.
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