"Shitty" Response

In Shitty First Drafts the author, Anne Lamott, makes a lot of interesting points about writing in general. She talks about how everyone is really self-conscious about their own writings and they are afraid to let people read them because they are embarrassed and what not. I personally love letting people sift through my early writings because by doing so maybe somebody else can make sense of all the nonsense I was unable to figure out in the first place. I am always willing to take constructive criticism from others because I feel by doing so I am able to fully expand my writing and make it the best it can possibly be. I think writing is created from my previous experiences and the reactions to those experiences I have gone through that have led to creating me as a person.

Everything we have done or how we react to certain situations is formed from years upon years of various experiences we have gone through. I feel like writing is very similar in the sense that what we think about and what comes out of our pens is shaped by our past experience. Writing is a very broad subject matter and if you give the same topic to five-hundred people to write about, you won’t get any two that are alike. It’s just how writing is and that’s the thing I love about it. As long as you write your ideas and support your ideas then nobody can tell you that you’re wrong (as long as you stay on subject that is.) I like the idea that Lamott had about just writing everything you possibly can think of and every little thing that comes to mind when writing and then try and sort through it later is a really good one. Just start writing and don’t stop until you’re out of things to put on paper. After that maybe a few days later look through it again and try to figure out the nonsense. Then a few days after that finish it up and you should have a pretty legitimate essay. In only three sittings you can polish off a good piece of work. I like that idea, only three sittings.