Blog #6

My writing process for the first draft of Project One was much different than I thought. I sat in my bed and drafted the project by arranging the webs of the mind map. I thought that that was the hardest part of drafting this project. Because my ecology is very easy for me to talk about, the actual writing process of this draft was the easiest for me. I did my project yesterday after taking a nap to clear my mind to start this project. It took me about an hour to do because arranging the map itself took a while to figure out. This doesn’t compare to my ideal writing process because my ideal writing process would be on a beach around sunset. Although we’re not far from the beach, it’s the winter and it would take me a while to get to the beach and it wouldn’t be easy for me to conduct the project. Because it’s cold out it wouldn’t be easy or enjoyable to conduct the project draft. I enjoyed this writing process that I did to make my project draft because I was very comfortable under my blanket and laying down. I felt that it was easy to put all of my thoughts on the laptop being in a comfortable position. My writing process made me feel a lot more content than I thought it would. I was feeling happy about being smart, but I was feeling stressed because it took me a while to figure out how to move all of the lines for my mind map, once I figured it out I wasn’t stressed anymore. Lamott’s ideas about a first draft informs me that writing shitty first drafts is completely normal and okay to do. She said that no matter how good of a writer you are we all write not so great first drafts. This made me feel a lot better about writing drafts because I feel that my first draft always has to be perfect and close to the final edit, which shouldn’t be the case according to Lamott. She expresses that shitty first drafts are almost as if it’s apart of life.