On Writing, Part 5: Revision

So how do you feel about your first drafts? Hopeful? Optimistic? Proud? If so, I have nothing to say to you. I cannot relate.
Personally, I hate my first drafts. I think of how lousy my work is and how I hope that no one ever has to suffer the torture of reading it. But Stephen King has some encouraging advice for those of us who get trapped in the Draft One Doldrums.