In the first story, "Shitty First Drafts," by Anne Lamott it mostly discussed about how everyone's first draft is bad. Even authors that write books all the time have a bad first draft. And that its okay to have a bad first draft because in the end the bad first draft turns out to be an amazing story. Plus no one ever sees the writers first draft, because its just all the writers ideas trying to become one. In addition, you always end up throwing away the first draft, because you end up writing a better second draft.
In the second story, "How To Become A Writer," by Lorrie Moore was mostly about failing at life. That if you fail at an early age then it makes you a better and smarter person, but this is not true all the time. Throughout the story the main character, Francie, kept making the same mistake on her papers every time she wrote. She never had a good plot or a plot at all, but she was always very descriptive.
In the third story, "The Watcher at the Gates," by Gail Godwin was mostly about the watchers at the gate. How the watcher always makes you put writing off, or to finish it another day because the watcher thinks that if you are on a roll then he doesn't want you to run out of all the good ideas. The watcher only does this to the writer because the watcher is only helping the writer, and because the watcher does not want to see the writer fail.
All three stories are similar in that they are all explaining how to become a good writer. so if you put all three stories together you will no how to write pretty good stories. All three stories also share the same idea, failing. one way or another failing either helps you, even though failing is what everyone is afraid of. In addition, all three stories are scared of what people might think about the writer or the piece the writer wrote. In conclusion, do not be afraid of what others might think of you or your writing, if you enjoy doing it, then you should not care what others think anyways.
