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I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen.

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.

I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.

I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise because I've changed massive things about the story. By the time I get to the end of a first draft, I've been through the beginning lots of times.

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't.

The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.

Honestly I'm excited for whatever team wants to draft me, and I'm excited to make an impact right away.

Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don't stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don't, you'll die there.