"Shitty First Drafts"
Many times when I start writing my papers I get stuck just at the beginning. I need more time thinking on what I want to write and usually by the end of the page I end up crossing most of it. I write down different ideas and in some cases I throw some of them out at the end. Sometimes my first drafts look really bad. They are many pages long, but most of the writing on them is crossed out. This article helped me realize that even the famous writers go through that kind of process and that my first drafts are probably always “shitty�, even when I think they are pretty good.
By writing a first draft I have the chance to leave it on the side for a day and then come back to it and correct the mistakes I haven’t caught earlier. It gives me the time to think more about what I have written and maybe expand my explanations and make my final draft better. It is a way to organize my thoughts and make sure that the reader clearly understands the message I want to send.