That process was also illuminating, as I sense it must have been for Anne Sexton, as she drafted poems to her therapist (with whom, as it turned out, she was having an affair).
Last year, as an exercise, she drafted a memo on ways T.F.A. might improve.
He listens closely, Laura Hunt style, as she reads him drafts over the phone.
It was profoundly odd, Prebble admits, as she was refining drafts of the play to have different versions of it played out nightly on the news over the course of the past year.
Drawing on her experience as a human rights lawyer, she drafted a "solidarity letter" to city agencies calling not just for more police supervision in the park but for more opportunities for teenagers in the neighborhood.
He was right about that: sometimes I could actually hear an occasional sigh as she read a draft, a sign that the report was not going to be cheerful.
Whack, a former producer on Angelou's talk show on Oprah Radio, spent a great deal of time with Angelou, often sitting with her as she talked or drafted books.
"The bill shows far more compassion and makes a very clear distinction between the trafficked and the trafficker, which is a nuance that should have been made 60 years ago," Gandhi said on Monday as she unveiled the draft Trafficking of Persons Preventionn, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2016.
For two nights, she rode the subways -- or, as she wrote in a draft of her college essay, "From Woodlawn to Crown Heights and then from Inwood to Far Rockaway Beach, I sat on stone-hard train seats, thinking... planning... what train to ride next".
Just as she was finishing the final draft, President Obama was elected.
