Anne Lamott’s writing process in “Shitty First Drafts” is messy. She initially writes down everything that she is thinking, and then she goes back and refines what she wrote. Lamott has writer's block because she panics about how good her writing is going to be. She resolves this by taking a break, sitting back down, and word vomiting onto her paper. Lamott later goes back to her draft, elaborates on good ideas in her writing, and then crosses out everything else.
OER doesn’t really cover the messiness of writing a first draft. It gives us resources to write the first draft, and even some unconventional methods of writing, such as writing the conclusion after writing the introduction. OER also points us in the direction of properly summarizing,