

Write drunk. Edit sober.
Anyone can write. But it is the fine art of editing that makes the writer. “Write drunk. Edit sober,” is a well-loved quote some attribute to Ernest Hemmingway and one I perhaps should consider. Liver be damned. ‘Tis true that the best ideas come from a free flowing stream of consciousness. You know the feeling: the right side of the brain is firing on all cylinders. Your creativity is at its peak. That Zen-like state kicks in and the ideas spill forth. It’s the writer’s eu