>it's almost never the case that some creative person has a brilliant story come out perfect in the first draft. I've got a book i ended up getting in a free b

>it's almost never the case that some creative person has a brilliant story come out perfect in the first draft. I've got a book i ended up getting in a free box of books. It's some fantasy novel. It's probably the worst book i've ever seen in print. Everything from the description on the back to the font choices, sometimes four or five in different sizes on one page, to the actual writing reads like something a child would write. Curious about how such a thing could exist, i looked into it more. Turns out it was a self published book edited by the author's wife. Now this next part is speculation... But you can almost picture his wife trying to edit this thing and the author just being like, nope we'll keep it my way. Like, basic spelling and grammar mistakes, terribly worded sentences, a story that made absolutely no sense. The thing is, getting past it all, there were some good ideas in there and likely, in the hands of a good editor and publisher, it could maybe have been turned into an alright, if still not that great of a book rather than, i'm not actually exaggerating here, literally the worst book i've ever seen. Another example that just kind of popped into my head while writing this, the original drafts of star wars. https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWarsCantina/comments/afvlzk/links_to_every_scanned_star_wars_screenplay_that/ https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWarsCantina/comments/afvlzk/lin... I've read some of them and honestly, they were pretty bad, like scyfy movie bad. Without the team of screenwriters and editors that worked through those drafts, we'd probably have no idea what 'Star Killers' was other than some weird cult scifi b-movie with a dedicated fan base of a few hundred people that get together once a year, get drunk, dress up as their favourite characters and complain about how nobody understands just how great George Lucas and Star Killers is. And then Spaceballs would never have been made and that just woulda sucked a whole lot.