In Say Her Name, Goldman examines his late wife's unpublished fiction, looking for clues to her life in her drafts, her notes.
Ms. Lawson said she spends four to five hours each day writing, and much of what she writes remains unpublished in her Drafts folder.
Harriet Boomer Barber (writing under the pen name Faith Templeton) kept a number of Hay's characters, while "turning the American industrial world into a sort of Christian utopia" in her Drafted In (1888).
Only in her last draft does she add: "Although medical opinion is divided on the question, much evidence exists to support the view that similar effects may occur in human tissues".
In her first draft of "A Place of Greater Safety," she had written mostly about the men, but, years later, when a publisher came to hear of its existence and wanted to publish it, she built the women up.
Then, as in her first draft, the stakes escalated, "losing farther, losing faster," and the losses mounted: my mother's watch, three beloved houses, two cities, two rivers, a continent.
The changes in her final draft reveal ways in which Mara creates and then joins in on a dialogue with the external voices by changing the ways in which the external voices are integrated into the text.
The author of the original script, Kelly Marcel (who co-wrote it with Sue Smith) told how she had sketched-out the entire story in her first draft but later realized the full potential of the story when she examined all of the Disney archives.
Despite saving 1000 LT by substituting the lighter steel armor for the wrought iron, the ship would have gained 674 LT in displacement and her draft would have increased by about 12 inches.
