BookChampions’s Reviews > 59 Reasons to Write: Mini-Lessons, Prompts, and Inspiration for Teachers > Status Update

A first draft is an ugly mess that I wouldn't even show my dog. It's filled with holes, melodrama, and threads that appear and disappear with no resolution. It's terrible. That's terrific! Because revision is where the real writing occurs. But you can't revise until you have something to work with. (172) --If this is the case, why do we expect students to get it right the first time? I mean, because we do.