• “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. “
  • Writing what comes to your mind and little by little deconstructing it and leaving the essentials in the final draft, trusting the process little by little. At some point with this process the final draft will come together.
  • “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”

Question 3 –

After reading the excerpt, it is clear to me that the writer is trying to express that the first writing will never be perfect, to a good final piece you must write what you feel and yes you’ll have your mind working and even writing way too much in your first draft.  After this first draft you can take all the essentials and the ideas of this and start refining it to create a final piece. The writer expresses this by giving anecdote of a restaurant, and have the first time is going to be the experience, but then you keep going and keep tasting and finally you get what you like. This can be a good comparison because in writing we cant always be perfect about it. The first thing we choose or even write about can be a run on idea, but after trying new things and refining the ideas to finally get something shorter but better then the final draft, it can be that the first draft can be a run on sentence and many times be just a bullet point in a paragraph. One good way to think about it the first draft is in my opinion and with influence of the reading, having a high school phase and every year that passes is like a revision till you get your final product in senior year. Lamott is trying to express that no writing is perfect in the first go, but it is something that with time and revision it can be perfected and with this constant process it can be like second nature and writing will be much easier and would flow differently than if its done last minute.