Shitty First Drafts

I think that these are good practices because I feel that a lot of them involve taking writing one step at a time and not getting too stressed out about it because once you feel pressured for time or stressed it is easier to get stuck in one spot. Taking a paper draft by draft has always worked for me. If I get stuck I usually stop and take a break for a while then try again; if I am writing late at night the best thing for me to do if I am still stuck is to just go to sleep and wake up with enough time to finish my paper before it is due if it is supposed to be due the next day. If it not due the next day I will take it literally piece by piece.


The steps for me to write a successful paper are to first make some sort of brain storm of the ideas I have that I want to write about. Sometimes I will do a web, or multiple webs, and then from there I will go paragraph by paragraph organizing my thoughts by main subject. After that, I will go about wiring mini, unfinished, sentences. These steps usually take the longest so that once I get to writing my actual paper I can just add a few words here and there and it is already put together. Using this strategy keeps me from having such an awful first draft. I try not to make my first draft too bad so that I will not have to completely rewrite my paper. I am the type of person to only want to have to do something once. I am more open to fixing the little things than I am to having to completely re do a paragraph or more than that. I do not try to reach perfection my any means but I want to look like I am educated. I have friends that will zoom through two thousand words in a little over an hour and think they have done well. They know that their paper is not very well put together, but all they care about it getting it done. I am not that way. Getting the paper done fast is one of the least of my concerns unless I am crunched on time, which does happen sometimes. I try to give myself enough time to organize my thoughts so that my paper is not all over the place like others may be.

I agree with the fact stated that attempting to obtain perfection will only ruin everything good about a person’s writing. I believe it is good to work towards that with every draft but thinking that it will be accomplished within the very first attempt is somewhat foolish. After reading this I have some worries only because I have not reached the page requirement for my paper; however, I know that I can do it and have enough time to finish what I need to say. I just need some help on organizing what I am trying to say into my arguments against the advertisement I chose.