Before I began my rough draft I sat down on my bed and read Shitty First Drafts by Anne Lamott. After reading, I pulled out my laptop and started working first draft of the map on lucid chart because I wanted to get the feel for the website. It probably took me about an hour and a half to two hours to map out everything the way that I wanted to. I felt this compared pretty well to my ideal writing but without the writing, pretty much just brainstorming and reorganizing. During the process I got stuck a few times, but then I thought back to the passage and realized the important part was just to get my ideas down and not worry if they were gonna be perfect or even good ideas. I’d say that Lamott’s ideas about a first draft are pretty similar to mine, where she says that you just need to get whatever you think of down no matter how stupid it sounds, because that’s when you are most creative. Creativity has its growing pains, but you need to get through them if you want a good final product.
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My draft 1 process was pretty similar. When I got stuck and just wanted to take a break I remembered Lamott’s piece and knew it would be best to just get my ideas onto the chart regardless of if it looked good or not. The most frustrating part for me was working with the chart because I just didn’t like how little space there was. I do not know if I had too much information that I was trying to get down or not, but in the end I do feel like my map might be a little crammed.
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I totally agree with what you said about how in a first draft, when you get stuck, you should just write what comes to mind, without stressing about if it’s good. It’s ok if it’s shitty because it can be improved later, so getting too worried about it that it prevents creativity is going to hurt more than it helps.
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