John Martinez 1st Project Shitty First Drafts Response

When it came to writing out my first draft for the first project, it was certainly not like how it is described in "Shitty First Drafts". I didn't simply put thoughts and ideas onto a paper and cobble a draft from these ideas, I planned out my draft and outlined what I wanted to accomplish in my draft. I did careful research into my two genres and made sure I had a working knowledge of both before I began to write to ensure accuracy. After that, I simply wrote and wrote for a few hours while listening to music, stopping only to take a short break in-between. This contrasts greatly with how the author of "Shitty First Drafts" described their writing process, where they despaired when trying to write their review for the first time and tossed out a bunch of their opening lines. I didn't write what I deemed unnecessary to the draft, unlike the author in "Shitty First Drafts", who describes how they wrote a leading paragraph a page long and overwrought descriptions of the food, despite it being entirely unnecessary. While I'm certain I will sit down and heavily edit the draft for its mistakes and imperfections, I don't feel as though my writing process and the writing process of the author of "Shitty First Drafts" are at all similar. I know most people don't write in a similar way to me, its something that has come to me thanks to how I was taught in school and my time spent writing both in and out of school. While I certainly understand the process of the author of "Shitty First Drafts", it doesn't mean I have to use it when my own process works far better for me.