Lamont

I went through a few stages of making my first draft. The first thing that I did was sat down at my desk in my room, and put some music on quietly in the background. I then thought of ideas for the rhetorical ecology that my project would be about. For me, this part of the process took the longest, and I found that it was hard for me to decide on a single topic to make the project about. After I had finally decided on a rhetorical ecology, I created the rest of the map from there. I found it was easy to come up with rhetorical elements and concepts once I had finally decided on a rhetorical ecology. While working on this project, I kept in mind that it is only a draft that I was working on, so I tried to make my ideas as broad as possible so that it would be easier to refine my ideas instead of completely replace them. I enjoyed reading what Anne Lamont had to say about first drafts. I agree with what she says about how all first drafts are “shitty” and it definitely made me feel better about the first drafts that I have written. When I write a first draft, I usually don’t worry about things like grammar and consistency. While writing a first draft, I normally just try my best to get as many ideas as I can onto the paper, and then over time I refine the gibberish that I started with to make it into a coherent piece of work. Lamont’s writing, in a way, justified my writing process, and provided me we a sense of reassurance for the high amounts of “shitty” writing in my first drafts. Lamont’s writing made me feel better about myself and my rough draft process.