I&#039;m not trying to instil any fear here. Of course a first draft is a first draft. But there&#039;s a difference between producing words that can be turned into something and producing words that can&#039;t. Writing for the sake of it is, in my view, likely to produce the latter, and waste time when you realise it has to come out, not least because one false turning is likely to lead to others. But that&#039;s just my opinion.