{"id":37,"date":"2017-11-13T23:38:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T23:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ypark1\/?p=37"},"modified":"2017-12-01T23:03:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T23:03:15","slug":"week-9-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ypark1\/2017\/11\/13\/week-9-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 9 Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Anne Lamott creates valid reasons for writing an inadequate first draft in <\/span>Shitty First Drafts<\/span><\/i>, when I reflect on my personality, I find it difficult to follow Lamott\u2019s message. Lamott explains how it\u2019s perfectly acceptable to have a terrible first draft, as the purpose of writing one is to simply get out all of the ideas out of our heads. She substantiates her claim by explaining that \u201call \u00a0good \u00a0writers\u00a0write \u00a0them. This \u00a0is \u00a0how \u00a0they \u00a0end \u00a0up \u00a0with \u00a0good second drafts and terrific third drafts\u201d (Lamott 1). Through this statement, Lamott sparks an extent of comfort within the readers, as even the best of writers start with poor first drafts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I learned to be at ease if my first drafts are subpar, but I\u2019m the type of person who has to make my work look decent. This is not to say that I am a perfectionist, but I find myself making my first draft look as good as possible because I want to avoid trying to make something terrible into something good; rather, I prefer making something good into a formation of its own excellence. I believe that part of this is constituted by having only one rough draft required. With only one official chance for having our essays reviewed by our professors and peers, I feel compelled to turn in work that I pour a lot of effort into, in order to make that great writing into an even better one.\"Coffee <\/span><\/p>\n

Evidently, this would be a different story if we were required to turn in multiple drafts, as we have several opportunities to revise our work. However, this is not very realistic, as our quarter system prevents us from spending too much time on one assignment or topic due to the many other areas that must be covered within ten weeks.\"Work <\/span><\/p>\n

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Although Anne Lamott creates valid reasons for writing an inadequate first draft in Shitty First Drafts, when I reflect on my personality, I find it difficult to follow Lamott\u2019s message. Lamott explains how it\u2019s perfectly acceptable to have a terrible first draft, as the purpose of writing one is to simply get out all of … Continue reading Week 9 Blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"ypark1","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ypark1\/author\/ypark1\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Although Anne Lamott creates valid reasons for writing an inadequate first draft in Shitty First Drafts, when I reflect on my personality, I find it difficult to follow Lamott\u2019s message. Lamott explains how it\u2019s perfectly acceptable to have a terrible first draft, as the purpose of writing one is to simply get out all of…","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ypark1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ypark1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ypark1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ypark1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ypark1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ypark1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ypark1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ypark1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ypark1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ypark1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}