Don't look back until you've written an entire draft.
It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U. S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.
If you draft me, you'll never regret it.
What I should have done, if I was going to be a GM, was gone on the road, gotten into the personnel a lot better. To do that job, you've gotta do it all year. I just did it at draft time.
One of the reasons why I had such a horrible draft is that I hosted an eight-hour pool party before the draft. and so I wasn't quite in my perfect drafting form.
To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.
A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.
The first rough draft of history.
The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.
I don't feel like there should have been three backs taken ahead of me. And I'll always feel that way. But there's only one draft, and I can't change it. All I can do is go out and prove myself.
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.
I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.
The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut.
I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.
I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.
The first draft of anything is sh*t.
I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question to answer because I'd been working on another novel for years and when I gave up on that, this one came very easily. But I think the work had been going on a lot longer than the actual writing.
You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil. . . you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.
Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR.
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.