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by MilnerRoute 415 days ago
I've heard professional writers recommend your way. I think it was Stephen King who said "First I wear my writer hat" (to get something out there to work with) -- "and then I wear my editor hat."

There's even a phrase for it. Anne Lamott wrote a really good book for aspiring (fiction) writers -- and one of the chapters urged them to accept and aspire to "shitty first drafts."

https://wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/1-Shitty%20First%...