Tag: Shitty First Drafts
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Let it be shitty or make it pretty.
Are you one who pours it all out on paper? Or do you constantly revise as you go? Are you team shitty or team pretty?
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Writing a Shitty First Draft to Break Free
I used to think the phrase “shitty first draft” was a little crass. Maybe even unnecessary. Why not just write a decent first draft, something…
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First Drafts: How Many Drafts Live Within Them?
In the selection “Shitty First Drafts” from her book Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott asserts that all good writers write shitty first drafts.
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Writing Something Shitty is The First Step Towards Writing Something kind of Good.
As a writer you should be one of your harshest critics. Taking it easy on yourself will often times lead to you getting too comfortable instead of growing.
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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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Is a ‘shitty’ First Draft Really that Important?
Lamott believes that it’s necessary to write a “shitty” first draft but Dila believes there many valid methods of writing.
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Drafts: Shitty or Seed
Everything around us started off as a first draft. As the first of something will be improved upon. A first draft is the starting point of any discovery.
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Shitty First Drafts…
Writing first drafts can be difficult. Anne Lamott explains in “Shitty First Drafts” her experience with writing first drafts.