The crudeness of the first draft didn’t concern him the way it concerns so many writers. Instead, Orwell wrote almost constantly—especially while working on his later books, when taking breaks to earn outside income was no longer a necessity—to get that first draft down on paper, then edited and revised obsessively to shape the work into its ultimate form. “The rough draft is always a ghastly mess bearing little relation to the finished result, but all the same it is the main part of job,”
