Overrated

I am coming to believe that coherence, especially in early drafts, is deeply overrated. Coherence implies order and tidiness, and the more I write the more I value disorder and barely controlled chaos in my sh**ty first drafts. There's an appealing shot-from-the-hip-ness about what I've been writing at night that I want to preserve in more tightly edited drafts. So I'm hoping that the story you hand to us on Thursday is just barely hanging together by its fingernails.

;-) Barbara