Category: Topic 3: Process
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Writing as a Process
This is a deep dive into shitty first drafts and seeds. One believes shitty first drafts are key to the process, the other viewpoint differs.
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Shitty First Drafts
Writing a first draft is never going to be perfect, some may say it will be shitty, but is there a correct way to draft something?
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Give the First Draft Some Time to Cook
You will be bad the first time around, which is okay and generally expected! Because there will always be the opportunity to try again.
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Process Metaphors
Analyzing Reid’s article on the writing process and highlighting some of her best metaphors that all writers can utilize to improve.
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Sh*tty Drafts
Addressing my thoughts on Lamott’s Shitty First Drafts and offering alternative approaches to beginning writing that may help save time.
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Is Shelley Reid onto Something?
Shelley Reid provides different approaches college students can use in their writing, but are they helpful or redundant?
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Is it a Shitty First Draft?
Anne Lamott talks about Shitty First Drafts and how she tackles them, but is shitty the right word? How “shitty” can be controversial.
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Shitty First Drafts… Agree to Disagree
Anne Lamott seems to be all or nothing in her writing process. George Dila on the other hand, describes his writing process in another way.
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The Best Writing Process? You Do You.
No one seems to agree on what the best writing process is. Some believe in bad first drafts, some don’t. The answer? You do you.
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An Attempt Was Made – First Drafts.
A look at how first drafts function, whether or not a shitty first draft is reasonable, and how those of us who don’t write shitty first drafts get by.