Many of Emerson's essays were originally written as lyceum lectures.
The song wasn't originally written as a duet.
This article was originally written as a preface to a collection of essays by Liu Xiaobo.
Stilted, static and unbearably smug, "The Contenders" was originally written as a play, and it shows.
"Some of the best bits in the book were originally written as poems," he says.
But the character Paul Newman eventually played, Henry Gondorff, was originally written as a fat slob.
He's also been circling a role in an adaptation of Stephen King's adventure The Dark Tower, originally written as white.
This footnote was appended on 21 September 2011: No Man is an Island was not originally written as a poem.
He takes well-known songs and transforms them seamlessly, as if they were originally written as jazz.
"Don Juan in Hell" was originally written as a separate scene in the third act of "Man and Superman".
The play, which was originally written as a monologue, is not, I'm told, based on actual events.
