Lamont want to say that most people start out their first drafts as if it was the final product and constrain themselves to, what ends up being, a horrible paper. She goes on to say that people need to take the time and just write “ a really shitty first draft” to get out what you feel needs to get out and work from there. She believes the actual process of writing is to write shitty drafts and eventually refining them into pieces that will actually mean something. I believe this is prevalent because of the pipe dream that is the “writer.” Stereotypes can paint writers in a way like writing is a breeze, aying that anyone can just sit at a computer and produce gold on the first go. We've all tried writing novels... Admit it, you have too. It's difficult, and Lamont shows us that writing is not quite as easy as stereotypes make it seem.
Wikipedia allows us to look at other shitty drafts by use of the “View History”. We can look back at the first submission of an article and compare it to what is the current or the latest that the author has written to compare and contrast. I find this to be very beneficial. It helps in the process of writing future articles or papers, showing our glory moments and our shortcomings. We learn from the writing, remind ourselves to not make those mistakes again, take a deep breath, and get started on our next topic.
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