The First Draft of Anything is Shit - What????

"The first draft of anything is shit."
~Ernest Hemingway


What?
Really?
Okay, Ernest and I are going to have words.
What?
Okay, I can sort of see where the guy was coming from and after all, writer Ernest was pretty intense and if rumor has it a bit of a drunk (well, maybe a lot of a drunk). Perhaps his intensity and drinking  (and sadly his eventual suicidal inclinations) colored his opinion. Perhaps it truly was that way for him.
Whatever.
Here’s the thing. That statement can well be true m...