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The victors generally write the first draft of history.
Journalists are sometimes said to write the first draft of history.
The number of days it took Stallone to write the first draft of the Rocky screenplay.
The traction that this narrative gained was evidence that the victors do not always write the first draft of history.
Having let his own spin doctor write the first draft of the Iraq dossier, he had that suppressed.
Whatever happened to your original computer — the one you used to write the first draft of the Great American Novel?
As insurance, I write the "first draft" of an essay on three-by-five cards, typing sentences in no particular order, taking my own dictation.
"It is extraordinary that Mrs Woolf did not even write the first draft of her letter, which was supposed to detail her own personal experiences.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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