Anne Lamott's Shitty First Drafts

Reading “Shitty First Drafts” was neat because I felt a connection to a lot of things Anne Lamott says, especially the bits about how she worries that other people will read her shoddy first draft of anything. It’s not very often that a reading for school does that. Out of the whole piece, I think paragraph 2 (where Lamott quotes here writer friend who said “It’s not like you don’t have a choice, because you do – you can either type, or kill yourself”) stuck with me the most because I think that it’s true for all people, not just writers.
Nobody should kill themselves over writing, but the original speaker highlights the importance of writing even if that’s not what they meant to do. Writing has been an essential skill for thousands of