Reflective Essay: Shitty First Drafts
Walking into room 115 in the HSS building my first day of second semester as a freshman I had no idea what to expect, little did I know, I was in for a big surprise. English 214 has been a rollercoaster with its ups and downs, but it has taught me so much more than what I have learned my previous years of writing all put together. This course has challenged my thoughts and forced me into putting much more effort than any other class has needed, but at the end of the day it is all worth it. From learning about having a strong ethos, good paragraph structure, including frosting, and revision, revision, revision, this has slowly shaped me into becoming a better writer by putting more thought into my writing instead of just rushing through it.
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She has perfectly described how hard it is to start writing, the most difficult part is starting. Anne Lamott has gave me an understanding along with Professor Trainor on how it is perfectly fine to have many first drafts, in fact it is better because that is a way on how you can always improve your writing. You literally jot down many ideas, anything that comes to mind and just keep going and going because no one is going to see that draft. I have struggled endlessly on starting to write, I believe it is the most difficult part for me as well because I just blank out when the moment comes and I just get up and try to distract myself so I could then focus, but I need to come up with a better technique because I just procrastinate and leave it at last minute. “ We all often feel like we are pulling teeth.”- Anne Lamott. I can relate to this quote because that is how it literally feels when you are just stuck in the computer trying to think of what to write. When our class first started to write about our blogs, the first assignment was to pick a topic that we would stick with the rest of the semester, I thought it was easy enough so I thought of a topic last minute and little did I know how difficult it would be to write about it for so many posts without getting bored or running out of information. I then had to switch topics about three times because I had writer’s block for the first two topics I had
She has perfectly described how hard it is to start writing, the most difficult part is starting. Anne Lamott has gave me an understanding along with Professor Trainor on how it is perfectly fine to have many first drafts, in fact it is better because that is a way on how you can always improve your writing. You literally jot down many ideas, anything that comes to mind and just keep going and going because no one is going to see that draft. I have struggled endlessly on starting to write, I believe it is the most difficult part for me as well because I just blank out when the moment comes and I just get up and try to distract myself so I could then focus, but I need to come up with a better technique because I just procrastinate and leave it at last minute. “ We all often feel like we are pulling teeth.”- Anne Lamott. I can relate to this quote because that is how it literally feels when you are just stuck in the computer trying to think of what to write. When our class first started to write about our blogs, the first assignment was to pick a topic that we would stick with the rest of the semester, I thought it was easy enough so I thought of a topic last minute and little did I know how difficult it would be to write about it for so many posts without getting bored or running out of information. I then had to switch topics about three times because I had writer’s block for the first two topics I had