Every First Draft Is Perfect, Because All

When A Novel Has 200,000 Words, Then It Is Possible For The Reader To Experience 200,000 Delights, And To Turn Back To The First Page Of The Book And Experience Them All Over Again, Perhaps More Intensely.

I Had Spent Years Thinking About One Thing While I Was Doing Another. I Had, In Fact, Prided Myself On Being Able To Do Two Things At Once.

Like Most Of The Educated, I Do Harbor A Fondness For The Sins Of My Ignorant Past.

In My Experience, There Is Only One Motivation, And That Is Desire. No Reasons Or Principle Contain It Or Stand Against It.

Because Your Goal Is A Complete Rough Draft Of A Novel, And Every Rough Draft, By Being Complete, Is Perfect.