Shitty First Draft

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The article surely was an interesting one, definitely shaping my ideas about writing. Before reading this I would always think that writers such as J.K. Rowling had such talent that they could write the entire Happy Potter serious in one sitting. I now see that talent does not dictate your writing, hard work does. When teachers in high school gave us assignments for a draft I almost always found it pointless. I would write my first draft and think this is the best I can do, their is simply nothing I can do to make this any better. The problem was that I did not sit down long enough to see my mistakes. I was simply too afraid of starting over and making it worse. I can now appreciate the art of writing a shitty first draft.

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  1. UnknownSeptember 4, 2017 at 4:36 PM

    I thought of J.K. Rowling too as an author that could write on forever in one sitting!

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  2. Camille VilelaSeptember 13, 2017 at 1:40 PM

    Hi Alexis
    I'm glad to see that the text made you realize that writing is hard work and even more accomplished writers work hard on it. I wish, however, you had extended your response further and dwelt on topics such as your writing process and if you use first drafts or plans on using them after reading the text.

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