For my first draft, I treated it as a free-write piece just to get my ideas down on paper. One of my biggest struggles with writing is struggling for “perfection” in the first draft and I’ve realized how much that mindset slows me down. This class taught me to finally appreciate the use of “shitty first drafts” and begin writing without concern for perfection on the first try. I sat down and simply thought about why I choose to write; I work best chronologically, so I began thinking back to when I was a young child learning how to read and progressed to my writing as a college student.
