In Anne Lamott’s article “Shitty First Drafts‚” the author writes about first draft that are “incoherent‚ hideous” and just downright “shitty.” The author explains how even professional writers sit at their desks with fear in their eyes‚ and desperation in their heart dreading the writing process hoping to get some type of enlightenment that will help them write their next story. Lamott then goes on to elaborate how that fear and anguish is exactly what great authors need to create their masterpiece
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A Literary Analysis to Shitty First Drafts Writing does not always come out naturally for neither inexperience nor experience writers. In shitty first drafts‚ the talented author‚ Anne Lamott changes the misconception that writing comes out naturally for a professional writer. Lamontt also address the common problems that all writers encounter when writing while providing the reader with advice to get past their problems when writing. Lamott states “The right words and sentences just do not
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Was Brutus the noblest roman of all? “This was the noblest roman of them all” Mark Anthony said about Brutus in the play Julius Caesar‚ after Brutus had killed himself at the battle of Philippi. Although Brutus had participated in the assassination of Julius Caesar‚ Mark Anthony‚ Julius’s nephew‚ was praising Brutus as a noble person. But how was he noble? In the beginning of the play‚ we meet Brutus‚ a highly respected‚ much loved‚ senator of Rome. He loved Rome as a republic and he has a good
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Maker’s Eye‚” the author‚ Donald Murray states that “when a draft is completed‚ the job of writing can begin”. He explained that the major difference between student and professional writers is that professionals have mastered their skills of reading‚ and their first draft is always a progression of drafts. They are constantly refining their work and sharpening their ideas. As for students‚ they think the work is pretty much done when the draft is completed‚ but because writing is a complex process‚
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Annotated Bibliography (rough draft) Lamott‚ Anne. "Shitty First Drafts." Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York: Anchor‚ 1995. 20-27. Print. In the passage “Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott from Bird by Bird‚ the author promotes that “shitty first drafts” are the key to most successful pieces of writing. Lamott indicates that most writers have “shitty first drafts” and that “all good writers write them”(21.) In order to have a good piece of writing one must vomit all
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year was assigned a number from 1 to 366‚ the numbers were written on pieces of paper which were placed in plastic capsules‚ and the capsules were drawn from a glass jar. Every man who had the birth date assigned to the first number drawn in the lottery was drafted first‚ every man who had the birth date assigned to the second number drawn was drafted second‚ and so on. No one knew how many men would be drafted in 1970‚ so no one could predict which lottery number
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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
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The American Revolutionary War was one of the most symbolic wars in American history. After writing the Declaration of Independence to Great Britain explaining that the colonists wanted their freedom and liberty‚ the British would not go down without a fight. The conflict arose when British would invade their land and seas without permission. They were at odds about their political rule in the colonies regarding taxation and frontier policy.The colonists were angry and determined to fight for their
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In “Shitty First Drafts‚” a selection from Bird by Bird (1994)‚ Anne Lamott claims that in order to write effectively it is necessary to just get a first draft written down‚ no matter how crappy it may be. She does this by disproving the assumption that great authors just sit down and magically spit out an amazing piece of work and by sharing her own experience writing awful first drafts. Ms. Lamott‚ an accomplished author‚ shared her experiences in order to demonstrate how all readers need to write
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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
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