Most of us have to carve and mold and bend and toss out and start over and whittle and apply a bit of verbal putty and chip away and buff and polish and mold some more before we polish and polish again. Turning in a “first draft” for me usually means no less than ten drafts to get it to a “good enough” state to show others. Think of your first draft as gathering the clay needed to carve a sculpture. The clay is then formed into a rough shape. It is raw and maybe oddly misshapen. You must turn it into something beautiful. That is what happens during numerous revisions and refinements.
