I know this is from last week but it’s something I forgot to comment on. The idea of a shitty first draft. We talked about it during the writing seminar. The idea is to basically write all of your thoughts down on paper, just get it on down, no consideration of grammar, structure, order, anything. Once you have it all down you can go through and start to refine it, organize it in some logical/appropriate way. Once you have that, you can start to go through and create your final product. This felt very familiar to me because it’s a way to problem solve. Any kind of critical problem solving, this process is very helpful. Put all of the context of the problem down on paper, all your variables, clues, everything. Organize it in some logical way, then start to solve it.