After reading "Shitty First Drafts" by Anne Lamott i agree with her perception of first drafts. i find that in my first drafts I'm not really focused on what, or how good the writing on the paper is as much as i care about laying out the points of my paper. i tend to use my first drafts as a brainstorming device to get my thoughts on the paper.(usually in memoirs and narratives). i like to think of it as Lamott does writing a shitty first draft allows great room for improvement, i don't want my first draft to ready to to handed in. although i don't write a number of drafts. i like to get my first draft out of the way, have everything on my computer screen and dissect it over and over again until i think I've got it. i try not to get hung up on trying to make a number of copies. regarding Lamontt's 7Th paragraph on trusting the process, i think that is something that most writers have in common. it wasn't until my senior year i began to trust the process. my English 12 teacher tough me the steps of the process. he then told me it was okay to jump from step to step. go back to the second step, change your idea etc. this was probably the best advice i received and gave me much more faith in the writing process. i still believe that each writer has their own specific variation of the writing process. for me, i like to get everything out in a free write manor. then for that free write i look over it and make an out line of how i want to portray the narrative. once i have completed that i begin writing another free write corresponding to the outline. (i like to do all of this on paper with a pencil) once i have completed this, if i feel comfortable with the information i have written down i put the piece together. once i have the piece together the way i want it i then worry about punctuation, grammatical errors and sentence structure.