Post 5: Shitty First Drafts

Lamott's Shitty First Drafts is a great reminder that all great works of any kind of art start of as a draft, markup, or idea. Her central argument in the short piece is that no one is going to be able to write an award winning piece of work on their first try. EVER. She almost over emphasizes the necessity of a drafting process, but also brings up many good points for writers struggling with beginning a composition. Throughout the piece Lamott focuses on the idea of writing playfully and just for the sake of getting some ink on the paper. When you look at the origins of a wikipedia page many of them are created just for the sake of getting discussion and research on the topic going. Often times these starter pages are short, horribly written articles. Over time these short article evolve into full pages of credible information with sources, links, and images. This whole process can be viewed on wikipedia through the history tab of the page, and even the original article can still be viewed. This new technology of revision is crushing the old, concrete, published book with a new, constantly updatable form of multimedia information.