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My first drafts are always terrible.
It was terrible, as my first drafts always are.
I take time to correct and change the books, but my first drafts still take three weeks".
I write my first drafts in longhand and for that the computer gets pushed back and the keyboard moved aside.
After editing, she'd add her initials to the file's name; its name changed in my First Drafts folder, too, so I knew she was finished with it.
She gave me the courage to approach agents and theatres again and I managed to secure an agent who also saw something passably interesting in me – Rachel Taylor – who also proved brilliant at reading and who remains to this day the most ferocious of readers of my first drafts.
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I did my first draft with a multitude of ellipses.
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