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WHEN IS MY FIRST DRAFT DONE? I knew you were going to ask that. And I’m afraid I don’t have an answer for you. Or, to be more accurate, I’m afraid I have several answers for you. • Your first draft is done the first time you get to the end of the piece. In a perfect world, writers would pre-write and figure out a whole bunch of things they wanted to say about something. And then they would sit down and draft an entire piece from beginning to end and that would be a first draft. However, living as we do in a not-so-perfect world, this only happens when the piece is very short, or the writer is very lucky. Often,... CONTINUE This feature is an excerpt of Chapter 3 (Be a Pre-Drafter) from Be a Writer.  Check out the Weekly Feature archive >>

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