The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.
I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.
Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education.
On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after which I do the last draft, which gives me a chance to incorporate anything the actors have come up with during the rehearsal period, so I'm very inclusive as a writer.
Life is a first draft. . . with NO rewrite.
Journalism is the first draft of history
News is only the first rough draft of history.
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.
I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.
Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR.
Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done.
I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.
More and more teams are using almost exclusively the draft to build their teams. And that means you have younger players to develop in those key depth positions. Younger players are more susceptible to streaks than veterans. They go up, they go down.
Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.
I just can't imagine that people would stand for it. People are wanting to potentially elect someone who will get our troops out, so at this stage, if the draft was reinstated, I just think that people would have none of it.
