To quote pulitzer prize winning writer, Donald M. Murray
“You have to write badly to write well. That doesn’t mean you should have low standards in the end, but people who’ve been trained in literature compete with Shakespeare. That gets you nowhere. You need to have your standards low enough to get something on the page. "
I sat down with him for coffee a few years before he passed away. He was a beloved UNH professor and columnist for the Boston Globe.