drafts

I was reading tonight in Patricia Hampl's I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory. She talks about the memoir form being how the writer grapples with and understands memory, and somehow gives it meaning. But one thing she said caught my attention: "a careful first draft is a failed first draft." It caught my attention becasue my self-conscious impulse is nothing BUT to create a careful first draft. Especially with the advent of the blog, when I press the "publish post" button to release it to be read. It's a bit exciting, and the excitement makes my fingers careful on the keys, and make me comb back through to make sure everything is the way I like it. The one thing a blog makes me unable to be is spontaneous and undirected, which is exactly what Hampl would call a failure and inhibition to memory.
There, that was more or less spontaneous. But is that something worth reading about?