I would say that the document that was most helpful to me was Shitty First Drafts by Anne LaMott. This article really helped me to get started because hearing from a real writer that they had trouble getting started and that their first drafts were aweful gave me some encouragement to start. Just knowing that not everybody writes a perfect paper right away was nice to hear. LaMott said that you just need to let everything out and then you can go back later and scuplt your words to mean what you really want them to mean. I did not really receive a lot of feedback from my classmates the best feedback that I got from someone was from my professor. His feedback was helpful because he really went in depth and I felt that some of my classmates did not give me anything back. The most difficult thing for me during the drafting process was that I never felt like changing what I had. Once I had it written down I just wanted to leave it as is with some of the things I wrote. It was really difficult for me to reword or rewrite some of my work because I felt like it was so good already. The easiest thing during drafting was that once I saw the mistakes I made I was able to go back in and fix them but that was only if it was really a mistake. I feel like my intro shows my best ability as a writer. I spent the most time on that in my opinion because I wanted to make sure that my work was actually read and the intro does that.
