Feb. 1st

Lamott
In the article "Shitty First Drafts", Anne Lamott explains that if a writer begins with a shitty first draft then they are most likely to have a good second draft and an outstanding third draft. She also mentions that her writing used to really struggle, but the key to her success was discovering the importance of a shitty first draft.
King
In the article " What Writing Is", Stephen King explains his process for writing. He begins by talking about telepathy and how he imagines himself in a place where he can think about his writing.
Goodman
In the article "Calming the Inner Critic and Getting to Work", Allegra Goodman discusses the importance of being a confident writer. Goodman gives some tips on how to keep negative thoughts and that evil voice in a persons head to not corrupt a persons writing.
Haruf
In his paper "To See Your Story Clearly, Start by Pulling the Wool over Your Own Eyes", Kent Haruf explains how writing is unique to every writer. He shows that some pervious writers use writing processes that are completely insane and not to mention that his is no better. He gives the reader an example of how, where and the unique twist of literally blinding himself is part of his personal writing process.
Sontag
In the article " Directions: Write, Read, Rewrite. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 as Needed", Susan Sontag gives that example of her unique writing process. This process is easy and straight to the point and is different form the "proper" way because it offers the writer to add creativity.
Diaz
In the piece " Becoming a Writer", Junot Diaz explains how he became a writer. His story is not one that is he was an eager writer and everything came easy it was quit the opposite. He suffered from writers block and had lack of confidence, but this he realized is what made him a writer.
Using These Essays
These sources have all been beneficial because they all offer their own unique piece of advice. Something that I have noticed about learning about the writing process is that no one really uses the same thing because everyone writes differently. I think these authors grapple with the idea of construct because they now that true good writing comes form being confident and making your ideas be the important aspect of the paper not the format. Every writer is faced with distractions, lack of confidence, frustration and writers block but it is these things that make good writers. I believe Tony would have benefited from reading these because I benefited form it because they all gave me different ideas on how I can improve my personal writing process.
MM
1. One thing I found useful was the shitty first draft, because when I realized that my first draft was a bunch of crap I started over. What a mistake I was making and a huge waste of time.
2. Nothing really changed for me, I think becoming a better writer is a long process and I'm not completely dedicated to it because I don't want to be the best writer on the planet I just want to get and A on my assignment.
Response
I found all of these articles helpful to the cause of making me a better writer. For example Lamott gave me great advice and its something that I will always keep in mind. The saying that practice makes perfect definitely applies to writing and for me to become a pretty awesome writer is to learn form people who know what they are doing.