They began the process by holing up in a house in Pasadena, Calif., drafting the characters and the story line.
He had left behind a pile of manuscript pages including drafts, character sketches, notes to himself and assorted fragments.
Below it, around it, inside his two computers, on old floppy disks in his drawers were hundreds of other pages — drafts, character sketches, notes to himself, fragments that had evaded his attempt to integrate them into the novel.
Her agent and her editor typically weigh in on the draft; occasionally, characters are entirely reconceived.
The organisers reported that Na'Vi lost the first of the final five games after picking a "bizarre" draft of characters in a high-risk move that backfired.
You may have done this in creating the original draft; however, characters sure have a way of dragging the writer all over the place.
Now he was staying up all night to draft stories about his character.
The N.F.L. has urged its teams to draft as much for character as for talent.
The Baltimore Ravens' owner, Art Modell, said: "There is more emphasis by all teams, I think, to draft players with top character.
