Rough is Smooth and Smooth is Rough by Gabriel Valjan

 

Howrough or polished are your first drafts? Do you dare show us?

 

Myfirst drafts are rough as sandpaper.

 

Thereare times when I know my destination, while other times I have only a vagueidea on how to proceed from Point X to Y. Sometimes  I’ll be sitting at my desk like Captain Queegin The Caine Mutiny rolling ideasaround in my head, the way he used those metal balls in his hand. When I polishthe writing, it’s for internal logic and coherence and, because I write...