My sh**** first blog

After reading Anne Lamott's "Shitty First Drafts" essay, I was both inspired and surprised. Anne seems to have a few screws loose after she explains that writing drafts includes listening and ignoring the voices that appear in your head. She tells the audience to silence them by shooting them all in the head. But there were a few useful tips I took away from this piece. She taught me to just write and not pay attention to the voices in my head that are telling me to go back and revise the last sentence and maybe change "tells" to advises because thats just not the "AP" level word I was taught to use in high school. So thats what I'm doing for this blog right now, just writing whatever is on my mind pertaining to that article. I always used to let thoughts get in the way of my writing, which interfered with my writing process. I would lose my train of thought and sit there in a writers block trying to recall that brilliant idea I had a second ago. Anne tells her reader that if one character wants to address someone as "Mr. Poopy Pants" then you let that character do that. From now on I'm going to practice just writing and not letting myself go back and correct every sentence.