I think it's worth noting that a lot of the advice that great writers have given about the importance of drafting and redrafting and how your first draft is always going to be rubbish, comes from a time before word processing.
Ernest Hemingway's famous statement about the quality of first drafts is based on a world where manuscripts were typed.
We take for granted the ability we have to edit as we go, but it makes a huge difference. Even as I write this blog post, I'm writing, deleting, revising, as I go, and constantly reading over what I've written and adjusting it.
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