Sentence examples for drafts of novels from inspiring English sources

Early drafts of novels and plays can go astray.

Gotlieb had little interest in archiving digital material, preferring handwritten or typed drafts of novels, manuscript letters, and collections of photographs.

Among his findings: manuscripts done in long hand and on manual typewriters, proposals for science fiction stories and comic book series, outlines for plays and films, and several drafts of novels.

Not all of it is freighted with significance, yet much of it — books, snapshots, drafts of novels, short stories — gives me clues about who I was, who I am now and where I'll go from here.

Ian McEwan's literary archive – including abandoned stories, early drafts of novels, letters from other writers and about 17 years of emails – is heading to Texas after it was bought by the Harry Ransom Center for $2m£1.2m2m).

Finished a rough draft of Novel #1, and... OK, that's about it.

This famous author always pens the first drafts of his/her novels on yellow legal pads, with No. 2 pencils.

Even while he worked at Crawford Doyle bookstore on Madison Avenue, volunteered as an auxiliary police officer and took classes, he finished drafts of four novels within four years.

The first drafts of his novels are written straight on to the computer, from which he then takes a print-out for cold-eyed revision.

Her schoolteacher husband abandoned her; she burned drafts of her novels to keep warm; and in 1927 she died of Graves's disease, at 46.

The Waterhouse archive contains boxes packed with drafts of his novels and non-fiction, as well as correspondence, plays, sketches and screenplays.