Pg. 17, Question 1

Similar to the quote from Lamott, I feel my first draft is where my messy and cluttered ideas flow out onto the paper.  It is usually unorganized, and needs some changing, but inside the mess might be what I'm looking for.  My first draft is different from Lamott's belief in that the mess I wrote down as my first draft is not derived entirely from my "childlike" voices.  Most of, or maybe all of, my writings are geared towards writing assignments where I don't exactly have the literary freedom or time to write unneeded silly lines just because my inner child wants me to do so.  Even though I agree to a certain extent that your first draft is a child's draft, for my first draft it more closely resembles a cluttered draft.  It is simply what I intend to say, not some mess of nothingness, but a mess with a purpose.  It intends to be exactly what I mean, all there is left to do is to change my clutter in to something that flows more sensibly.