Response to Shitty First Drafts

I found this article very interesting considering the fact that most people, if not all, have a very difficult time writing a first draft, let alone the finished essay, article, etc.  I, like a lot of people, struggle when first starting to write.  At the start of high school, in my English class, I would always get lost when the teacher told us to start writing about a specific subject and/or prompt.  Other people would begin writing and I would just stare off into space thinking about what to write about, or even how to start the paper.  However, toward the middle of junior year, when I took AP Lang and Comp, we read this article about "Shitty First Drafts," and it really helped me understand the fact that no one will see my process up to the final draft; the audience will see exactly what I want them to see and when I want them to see it.  This really helped me understand that I can just verbally spill whatever words I wanted to onto the page and get all of my thoughts out, just to later organized and adjust everything to my liking.  Overall, this article was very informative and interesting to read and really kept the audience captivated through humor and anecdotal references.