For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have to throw it away. It's like I need eight hours to do two hours' work.
Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.
We care about margins.
Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.
Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.
When you're a litigator, you write so much, so many briefs, over and over again, that you're kind of really focused on one document and have draft after draft, and really pay attention to every single word.
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