I think Lamott did a great job describing how a first draft goes, you just have to get something on the page to work with. Lamott also made me feel a whole lot better about every first draft I’ve ever made because they were all pretty shitty. “almost all good writing begin with a terrible effort.” really put things in prospective. I wasn’t actually surprised that authors take a lot of time on multiple drafts and they are often bad drafts to start. Feels like persistence is the key to a good essay, and that gives me hope I can make a good one. Don’t stress it’s only the rough draft.
My goal for revision is a title, more transition sentences, some more of my opinion, and possibly tweak my thesis. To achieve these goals i’m diffidently going to have to read over my paper a few time out loud. After this I can fix a title and throw in some more of my opinion after quotes. I’ll then look at each end and start of paragraphs and try an work in some transition sentence or reword my sentences I already have to give some better flow. Then i’ll go back and look at mt thesis and see if it still represents my goals. Staying organized and making sure i’m still arguing for my thesis is going to be the hardest part. If I can’t seem to keep my argument on track i’ll look in the little sea gal and see if there’s anything that can help me.
I like that you also realized that everyones first draft isn’t going to be perfect because that is something that also resonated with me from the short essay. I also felt better about my draft/paper after reading Lamott’s essay. I also think our revision goals are similar because I also want to add more of my more opinion into my essay and tweak my thesis.
I think your revision plan is awesome and it seems like you took the time to set those goals to making a great final draft. Lamott also made me feel better when explaining first drafts. I beat my self up when writing it because I thought that this essay had to be perfect but after reading this short passage I learned that first drafts will never be perfect. Also that even the best, most popular/known writers cannot pull off a great first draft, it is always a process of trial and error. That part in that passage reassured me as well.