13. "RE: Writing process question"
In response to message #11
>Precisely. As I say in my eternally-unfinished guide for writers, "It >is not the writing, but the re-writing, that is great". Or as Ernest >Hemingway put it, "The first draft of everything is shit."
I'm not a big fan of that concept (although I may try it, since I'm in a fallow period anyway). Most of what I've written is 99% first draft, with only minor changes to tighten up dialogue and the like.