How writing poor first drafts is like anything else that you want to get good at.

               In the past I have written a lot of papers for school a lot of the time we follow this proses by making multiple drafts and having our classmates go over them.  In a couple of my classes the teacher would put up a short writing assignment that we would need to write about that he was not picking up sometime this was a little practice writing about a bigger assignment that we were going to do and this was just a simple and informal way to get our thoughts down on paper.  

               Friare and Pratt both have a way of saying that learning is about trial and ear and not just memorizing a bunch of facts.  This is like how Lamott is about writing where it is trial and ear where first you get your thoughts down on paper then you go from there by adding stuff to it, taking stuff out, rearranging it to make it sound better.  You would do this like 2 or 3 times or until you get it where you like how it sounds.  I did this with the speech that I had to do over the weekend.  I first made a bulleted list of what I wanted to say then put the bullets in order that I wanted to say them in.  After I did all that I wrote my speech by expanding on each bullet point and putting it into paragraphs.

               Most of the time I fill like how Lamott said how she felt when she wrote her review how she got all scared about someone seeing the draft and thanking that she is a terrible writer.  I fill like this all the time when I am writing for I do not like other people reading my stuff till I have had time to go over it and revise it.  Sometimes I have to put the writing aside for a moment and do something that is totally not related to the paper like play a game for a little or read a book that I happen to be reading at the moment just like how Lamott does with her reviews.

               I also relate this to me shooting a bow for I am starting out with a low powered bow that is easy to pull back so that I can get the bases of my form down and get used to using those muscles.  This is like writing your first draft where you just get everything down on a piece of paper where you are worming up your mind on what you are going to write about and you do not care if you hit your mark or not for you are just getting the form down on how you are going to write the paper.

               I can also relate this to my scouting career for I have been on many outing and each build on each other for when you first start you have no clue on what to take but the more campouts you go on you refine what you need to take and find out what we forgot and make it better for the next trip you are going on.  Also in scouting we just teach you the basics at the beginning then as you move up through the ranks you learn more and find out what needs to be done to make it a better experience for you and the other boys in the troop.

               So writing a poor first draft in not a bad thing for you have to build on something that you first did not know what to do and just keep refining it and practicing to make it better.