Project 3

By -




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Shitty First Drafts Response

By -
I want to start off by saying that “Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott is extremely inspiring to me. The combination of the personal tone that she uses along with the topic that she is writing about really speaks to me. Lamott uses the example of famous writers to prove that ‘shitty drafts’ are normal part of writing. This made me feel better about myself and my writing. I sometimes have a very hard time with writing, and this makes me feel like my troubles are something that almost everyone goes through. I agree with the points that she makes about bad drafts as being a crucial part of the writing process. Even though forcing a draft out of yourself may be hard and it might not turn out good, it gives you a starting point. Lamott writes, “But because by then I had been writing for so long, I would eventually let myself trust the process…” (Lamott paragraph 7). I think I need to learn how to trust the process in my own writing, because I try so hard to be perfect on the f...
Read more

Chapter 1

By -
                          I felt that this chapter could be very beneficial in helping to enhance my writing. Often times in class when I am told to write, I begin without consideration for my audience or genre, instead hoping to impress the reader with vast amounts of extraneous details. I thought it was interesting that depending on the intended audience, sometimes simplicity can be a better method of explanation rather than lengthy detailed sentences. This ideal completely contradicts everything the average student has grown up learning. In high school we were taught that in order to pass an AP exam, we must keep writing. “Write until you run out of time”, our teachers would say. It seems here that the importance is more placed on the quality of contents rather than the quantity.   An interesting theory to me is that when a seasoned writer begins their work, do t...
Read more

Shitty first Drafts Response

By -
Anne Lamott's "Shitty First Drafts" was a very real take on the writing process. She really opened up and recognized how writing is not an easy, one step process. It in fact takes time and patience and most of the time cannot get it done in one sitting. This is why writing a paper for class cannot be done in one night, it needs to be done at least twice and, in my opinion, be read over by at least two trusted people. This way a second set of eyes will look at it and point out errors or give feed back that one did not find in their own paper. Lamott gave great ideas on how to truly get started with a paper, you write down any and everything that comes to mind and when you reread it, you find that one spark to start the paper. It can get frustrating knowing that you wrote six pages and the very last sentence is the only one you'll use, but it is rewarding when the final draft is completed and to ones own perfection.
Read more