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In "Shitty First Drafts", Lamontt says that all good writing initially begins with a bad draft.  The first draft is an attempt to get ideas flowing and a beginning to the direction of where the writing will eventually go.  Lamontt's idea of a first draft comes from not being able to sit down and immediately beginning an amazing piece of writing from the start, in fact she stresses how uncommon this occurs.  Successful writing is a process and the beginning of that process is a shitty first draft.  Lamontt mentions using many different ideas, extending a portion of the introduction, or over emphasizing an idea just as a way to get words on the paper and deciding where you want to go from there.  When writing for Wikipedia, her methods could be useful by simply structuring the way you are writing the article.  By just getting something down on the paper, you can do as she suggests and use it as a starting point.  You obviously would never want to post anything on Wiki until you have a final draft selected, because a "Shitty First Draft" is only meant for the readers eyes only and is meant to be one step in the writing process.