QUESTION FROM JCG: Have you ever received negative (or not so helpful) feedback to a draft in progress and if so, what's your technique to re-focus?
It's as simple: Like Rauschenberg erasing a de Kooning, it seemed fine to let an audience edit everything I've ever done (and drafts, works in progress, bad ideas even) and let them destroy them.
(Of course, as panel officials have stressed, drafts are "works in progress" until the report is approved by governments and formally released, but it's rare to see substantive changes this late in the game).
The resolution, which was being prepared by the United States and Britain, was not formally presented to the Security Council yesterday; as noted in other articles yesterday, the drafting is still in progress.
But now, Canongate finds itself accused by Assange himself of "screwing people over to make a buck": he claims that the published version was in fact a draft, a "work in progress" and that he had promised to provide a new version of the book by the end of this year.
Their first reaction is what will go out into the world, and there's no such thing as a draft or work in progress, which is why there are so few genuinely great commentators, those who are not only able to tell us what's going on but do so with some form of wit and art.
But everything that happens seems to confirm her theory, not least the arrival of her new publisher's editor, Arthur, who having read a draft of her work-in-progress can see how much richer a book it might be if Ramon rather than Alicia became the central figure and the title were shortened to Bloom, thereby echoing that great Everyman, Leopold Bloom, in Joyce's Ulysses.
Pinter acknowledges the influence of Samuel Beckett, particularly on his early work; they became friends, sending each other drafts of their works in progress for comments.
In this sense, genomes from plant and human pathogenic basidiomycetes have been sequenced [ 4, 5] and there are drafts or genome projects in progress of other fungi.
Although I admire Mr. O'Hagan's writing, this draft was a work in progress".
