A First Draft

A first draft may seem like a simplistic piece of paper, worthless, but in reality, it is the key to writing an incredible essay. Hundreds of new ideas are roaming around a human’s mind constantly, and it is difficult to remember everything. For this reason, it is best to jot down all your ideas in any order or without proper grammar. I believe that the first draft is more about the process. When writing the first draft for anyone, they are not writing to submit something immediately. Instead, the first draft is a chance to release everything that is on your mind and organize it later on. There is a process to writing a well-rounded paper, and the beginning step to this is the first draft. Capturing all your thoughts and writing them down to remember them later is extremely vital. A great thought may zoom through your mind, and then later on you regret not writing it down. A little thought can slip your mind easily, but can impact a paper greatly that is missing it. That single thought can be a part of your paper that you could have branched off of to create a lengthy, detailed paragraph. Keeping all your thoughts for reference does not only work by writing them down, but also through other methods such as recording or video. Many sports reporters use that method to get ideas from the events, and from these resources, they can begin their rough draft. Ideas do not always have to be fresh out of your mind, but can be recycled from previous times to begin a “shitty first draft.” Through all of these useful ways to gather ideas, a person can begin their first drafts. After completion of their first draft, they move on to editing and beginning another draft. By looking at how a writer builds upon ideas from one draft to another resembles the process instead of the product.
I agree upon this fact because when I started my own draft, I looked at my first draft as the beginning of a tedious and long process. I sat down and jotted down my ideas, but onto a web. I like to write down my ideas using a web because it allows me to branch off detailed ideas off the central ones. Using all the ideas that I threw out there, I chose the ones that worked best for the narrative, and just crossed out the other ones. In the reading, I agree with the fact that no writer sits down enthusiastic and confident about what they are about to write. I never feel ready to write anything, and am actually a little nervous at times. After I begin to get into the rhythm of writing and build my confidence, I have a great flow with my work. One of her ideas that contributed to the strength in my rough draft is how many ideas are jotted down, but some of them are “good enough” when I take a second look. This allowed me to eliminate unnecessary information that just came out of my head, and gives me a better chance to rely on the ideas that will make my paper successful.