According to Lammot it is more about the process. Lammot says she learned to “trust the process,” she talks about her own experiences and they teach the reader to not take for granted the process of a first draft. The first draft is an opportunity for the writer to explore their ideas, organize their thoughts, and get the basic structure of the piece in place. It is not necessarily focused on creating a polished, finished product. Instead, the goal is to get the ideas and thoughts down on paper so that they can be refined and developed in later drafts. The product will eventually get done but the Lammot is attempting to tell us that if you focus on the process of the first draft and getting good ideas down onto paper and really having good insight, then the product will work itself out to be a great finished product.
This goes with what we did in class with the revision process. We were told in class to focus on bigger picture things rather little things to make the product look good. If you focus more on bigger picture things and go through the process of getting ideas down and helping your peers, then you will have a better overall piece in the end. Make the grammar and small corrections after you really feel you have good and solid ideas down.
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