Analysis Of Shitty First Draft

While reading Shitty First Drafts, Anne makes a great point. I asked myself: why do I always freak out when I have to write something for a professor? The combination of fear and the need to meet all of the requirements, makes writing in college a lot more intimidating than it did in high school. If I make an attempt to get over the fear of failure and just do as Anne says, I could potentially surprise myself with an superb paper. Instead of worrying about impressing the professor, I should worry about getting down all of the ideas. After practically slapping the ideas on paper, I could sort them and decide what’s worthy of making it onto the final draft and what isn't. In essence this process could help me feel more comfortable writing in general but I would definitely have to work on letting my ideas run wild. I think that it's a lot harder than Anne makes it out to be but I’m willing to test it out anyway.
Anne discusses how being vulnerable like a child will allow you to pour out everything that your meaning to express in your paper. Children have no filter, they usually say whatever is on their mind and what they are exactly feeling inside. Towards the end of the paragraph she makes an extremely smart point, if you weren't rambling on and pouring everything out on the paper, you may never find what you are truly looking for. Lastly, Lamott tells readers that this whole process is just a re-occurring cycle, and yes it will happen time and time again. If a writer uses some of these techniques that she discuses in this paper, then maybe writers can begin to have some ease when writing their first draft. No matter how "shitty" your first copy may be, there's no need to get your panties in a bunch, because no one will ever see those "shitty first