Blog Post #2: Shitty First Drafts

I can see how this form of writing could be enjoyable and help people, especially for concentration purposes, but I don’t believe that this is the most effective way. By fooling around during the first draft, you’re less focused and are less likely to come up with intelligent ideas the first time around. Of course, you can just write more and more drafts to make it more pristine, but that would take more time.

On the other hand, writing is supposed to be an enjoyable pastime for any person whose career is literature, so it would only make sense to have as much fun as possible during the first draft, then fix it up later. For me though, time is a precious commodity and so I would want to finish the paper as soon as possible.

There’s also the statement made at the end of the article saying that almost all good things start off with terrible first drafts. I don’t believe this is the case at all. Yes, the drafts certainly improve with each one, but I would never consider any of them to be terrible, simply not as good.

From an analytical point of view, where I look deeper into the text, I actually agree with what the author wrote in the way that it should be how people live their lives. A person starts off their life with a rough first draft, not knowing many basic principles that must be taught to them in order for them to be a decent human being. As time goes on, these “drafts” of people continue to improve until they’re a functioning member in society.

It doesn’t matter how you started off as long as you improve in the long run. A misbehaved child can still learn to love and behave, despite how horrible they were in the first place.