"The first draft of anything is shit."
-Ernest Hemingway
So you have this idea. It's really sparkly in your brain. You think you should write a novel about it. You think it might be a bestseller, or at least worthy of publication and praise. So you write it down. And...
IT TOTALLY SUCKS!
Yes, it's been known to happy. For some reason or another those sparkly ideas in our brains somehow get muddled on the way down our arm and out our fingertips, and when they land on the page it seems miraculous...
Published on September 18, 2012 06:00