Tesha Donald
ENG 1121 E106
Professor: Schmerler
March 11, 2019

English Sh@$%y First Drafts Response

Re: “S@#$$y First Drafts” Response
After completing Reading 1 please answer the following and post your responses in Open Lab.
1) How many drafts do you typically make of a paper/piece of writing? Do you write a “down draft,” an “up draft,” and a “dental draft” like Lamott says? Were you surprised at her chapter’s title? Do you think you will have to change the way you write a lot if you decide to write a “shitty first draft”?
Typically there may be a few drafts, sometimes maybe more than three. The title did not catch me off guard but I do not necessarily think that it’s a bad first draft I think it makes mention of not the best first draft. Writing sometimes take so much work and effort and for me when I write there is always a piece of me so I just want my reader to be captivated by it all. When reading my work I want you to feel something and perhaps get to know me a little better. I feel in writings there is always a piece of me left with the reader. I do not think I change a lot I think I make adjustments often to my writing after reviewing the first draft. Sometime I find that even in the first draft there are things I just might not want to let go and by the final submission I would have tweaked it so much, why did I even need it in the first place? Writing if there is no intensity I do not want it.