Claims American writer Ernest Hemingway said, "Write drunk, edit sober."
The quote "write drunk, edit sober" is often misattributed to Ernest Hemingway who, as it turns out, never wrote drunk. While Hemingway was definitely a boozer, he wrote in the morning and didn’t start drinking until the afternoon. Or so I’m told. [...] Michelle Stansbury, PR expert and founder of Little Penguin PR in San Diego, shares that she recommends people take this kind of "write drunk, edit sober" advice with a grain of salt. "There are those who argue that ‘writing drunk’ is a mental state allowing carefree application of words to paper and not a physical state of intoxication," says Stansbury. "There is much to be said for loosening up your grip on your words. Perhaps, you may even begin sounding like a human being through your writing, flawed, but authentic." For some, writing a blog post or article is a daunting task. Writing drunk is bad advice. But sober editing is great advice.