First Drafts and Other Hurricanes

Ernest Hemingway once said,




"The first draft of everything is shit."

Maybe it is, but it also depends on what you term to be a First Draft. As my approach to writing has changed dramatically in recent months, I no longer write and edit as I go along, but instead, simply write until I get to the end and then start the process of re-writing/editing/correcting.

So is a first draft simply the