Shitty First Draft

Anne Lamott explains to her readers that everyone experiences "shitty first drafts." She reassures them that the right words and sentences do not always come to mind right away. She states that, "The first draft is the child's draft...knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later." No writer is going to produce a perfect first draft, but you need to start somewhere. It's important to just get your ideas down on paper.
I've been working on my shitty first draft by putting my initial thoughts and words on paper. My plans for improving my draft include reviewing my professor's feedback and making the corrections to produce a more thorough and reliabe research paper.

Covering

We all have a part of ourselves that we want to cover. Covering is when a person admits the possession of a stigma, but keeps it from looming large. For me, the death of my grandparents was something I tried to cover. Both of my grandparents died within a four month time period, so the sadness I experienced really started to grow. For months, I tried to act like everything was okay on the outside by smiling, but on the inside, I felt like a huge part of my life was now missing. In a sense I tried to "cover" the feelings inside of me.