This quote from Bernard Malamud describes first drafts perfectly.
First drafts are for learning what your novel is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea to re-form it. The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
Bernard Malamud
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