Week 3:Reading Response

When Lamott says "the fantasy of the uninitiated," she means the people who aren't writers. After all if your not a writer how can you truly understand how it is to have to write something that will be published and made available to the world. Lamott says "more or less" because while she trust the whole process of the "shitty first draft" she still had the fear of someone somehow finding and reading her first draft before she got the chance to fix it up. Some parts of her wariness is personal because that's how SHE! feels, and all writers don't feel the same way she does, however she is speaking for all writers because all writers go through a difficult time when writing. All writers are worried about how the public views something they have written. Writing a first draft is more about the process, I agree to an extent but you have to have a little bit of writing about the product in the first draft otherwise you would just have a lot of things that come to mind on your paper.
Lamott's writing style helps her make her point by writing about examples and past experiences as well as feelings. Reading an essay that doesn't have any feelings or past experience in it is boring to read, you can be Reading it and by the time your done reading you wouldn't even remember what it was your were reading. she also puts thoughts about what other people would think about her work if they were to read her first draft.
Lamott writes about how difficult it is to begin writing, that's how it is with most writers difficult to get started, that's how I write it takes me a minute to get an introduction but once I get that down I'm good to go. I agree with the suggestions. If you write more than you have to once you do all the editing your essay will still meet the required length. I also agree with the fact that she says you should write childish feelings and words because it might just fit right in and if it doesn't then you can always cross it out.