Through the many struggles in life, I have been able to distinguish the more challenging struggles, from the lesser challenging. Out of the many obstacles in life, I find writing to be one of the more treacherous ones. Although many works of writing appear to be easily forged by the artist, creating the first draft for any writer has proven to be a very treacherous journey. In Anne Lamott’s excerpt from her book “Bird by Bird”, she describes her own personal struggle with writing first drafts when she worked for the “California Magazine”. She describes the stress involved with her work and the importance of throwing up all thoughts onto paper. Where “If one of the characters wants to say ‘Well, so what, Mr. Poopy Pants’ you let her”.