End Week 1: compare.contrast

Anne Lamott’s Shitty First Drafts describes and addresses the steps she uses to come up with her final works or papers. She starts off with summarizing her beliefs by describing her personal life and her thoughts that follow. She describes five paragraphs as a "child’s draft" containing lots of gibberish. She gives her self the ability to write down whatever comes to mind because the first draft is suppose to be crappy anyways. I agree with Anne because the first draft shouldn’t be your best work because you start out by jotting down feelings and thoughts and as time goes by you elaborate more to make the best paper possible.

Lorrie Moore’s How to Become a Writer is about Moore’s sense of confusion. Its about realizing where her inspirations came from to make her want to write. At first she wants to become a child psychologist major but ends up in the creative writing department. Her story is like a first semester in college, students think they want to be one thing and by the end of it they become something else. In her story she goes into detail about different jobs she had like babysitting children. I agree with Moore because at first you feel confusion and not sure about anything but after practice and time you learn to become the person you want to be. 

Gail Godwin’s The Watcher at the Gate addresses a common problem that happens among writers known as the “inner critic”. The Watcher in the story is a symbol for the inner critic that Godwin experiences in her works. Her main goal is to keep students from pursing the flow of their imagination. I agree with Godwin because everyone has an inner critic when it comes to something we really care about, which for her was writing. She instills in us to not reject too soon or discriminate too severely or we will end up beating ourselves up.

The three stories in some way have something in common. Each of the three stories has humor and teaches a lesson. They also all have a ending that wasn’t expected in the beginning. I enjoyed reading each story but I have to say that I like Anne Lamott’s story the most because it can be most related to me life.