: Re: Is writing three drafts really necessary? So I understand the first draft which is basically writing whatever comes to mind but I don't understand why we have to rewrite it three times. Can

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Interviewer: How much rewriting do you do?

Hemingway: It depends. I rewrote the ending of Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, 39 times before I was satisfied.

Interviewer: Was there some technical problem there? What was it that had stumped you?

Hemingway: Getting the words right.

— Ernest Hemingway, The Paris Review Interview, 1956
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