If I waited for perfection, I would have never written a word.
If it is one thing I learned about writing it is, you must start somewhere.
If you can sit down at your desk and write a paper in perfect form on the first try, you’re doing it wrong. If you feel like you have to rewrite multiple things and change ideas and move them around, thats what makes a strong writer. Writing one, two, even three rough drafts is definitely okay. Your rough drafts even each have their own “personality” even. According to Anne Lamott your first draft is like the child’s draft, where you let it all pour out. It will most likely be all over the place and you have a lot of jumbled up ideas. The second draft usually gives you the general idea of which way you are to be headed. It helps you use what you feel like you wrote the best. The third and last draft should be your “masterpiece”. Writing a good paper isn’t about having it all come out perfectly on the first try. It is about taking steps and crossing out what you feel like is and could be improved. All good writing begins with terrible first efforts. Everyone needs to be able to start somewhere and get something written down on paper. Your rough draft is your “down” draft, you just have to get it down. Write it and later edit and fix what you feel needs to be fixed. That is why here in different tabs I would like to show how I came about to be a better writer. Whether it being proof that I had rearranged and fixed my writing or it being i simply added information to it. I feel like revision is key to a perfect piece of writing.