"I write horrible first drafts full of lousy sentences that run on and on and half-formed ideas that go nowhere. Then I throw away everything but a few moments that seem to be worth exploring in another draft. I’d rather write three bad drafts in two weeks than one good draft of an essay, because I think the disorderly process bring me to say and see things that were not obvious to me when I sat down to write. It is hard to count drafts, since one is always poking in and changing a thing here and there, but between first draft and sending a work to an editor, I’m guessing my average essay has seen forty drafts." --Dinty W. Moore (Taken from Hippocampus Magazine Q & A)More on writing from Dinty W. Moore:"Red Light, Green Light: Tips for Conquering Writer's Block"
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