By Brendan O’Meara
Whatever the craft, all drafts are rough, some are just rougher than others.
The people who succeed, or the people who are able to keep playing the game, are the ones who can endure all the bad work to get to the good work.
When you realize this, it’s incredibly liberating. The more bad work, the more bad track you lay down, the greater the likelihood that something good will stick.
Art is a numbers game. There are nine bad, unpublished novels behind the author’s brilliant “debut.”
But she had the courage to write badly. Remember, all drafts are rough.
