The first draft is just you telling yourself the story

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story - Terry Pratchett

So I am nearly at the end of the first draft of Splinter - It's probably the sketchiest draft I have written, but I needed to get it out of my system before I start on the next Chupplejeep. Its like a lemon sorbet pallet cleanser in-between courses. The MS as it stands is a quarterly there - it definitely needs several full re-qwrites. But as TP says in the above quote the first draft is just you...