Anne Lamott, First Drafts

       Before this article I fell exactly into the category of people that Lamott described in her article. I felt like “good” writers could just sit down and the words would pour out to them like water and flow right onto the paper. According to Lamott nobody writes like this except for one person by the name of Muriel Spark, who Lamott doesn’t speak to highly of, in fact Lamott says, “One might hope for bad things to rain down on a person like this”. Anne rather tells us that all people write a terrible first draft. A first draft that is so bad that it is childlike. If when you’re composing your first draft and you want to ramble about something that is nonsense Lamott say to go ahead and do it. This is how you create a piece of work that is outstanding. If your worried that someone is going to read your first draft and think less of you it destroys a first drafts purpose. You have to just let the words pour out and then make sense of the gibberish later. In Wikipedia though there is a problem that arises; there is no hiding of the first draft created by the original author. Once that first article is placed on Wikipedia there is a record of it storied in the History. Having this feature is enormously helpful for the fact that as you come in to edit an article you can reflect on the mistakes that others have done and it will help guide and direct you to a more successful edit.