http://www.girldetective.net/?p=204 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Tue, 12 May 2026 01:58:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=204&cpage=1#comment-2752 Erik Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:46:56 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=204#comment-2752 Plenty of authors do this. David Mamet does this with plays. He'll do one complete draft, put it in a drawer, then start a new one. The idea is to go back and cover the important things, knowing more now about the overall flow and shape of the piece. After he has two to five versions of the same story, with different approaches to the staging, the dialogue, and the characters, he then combines them -- which makes editing more interesting, if more complicated. Plenty of authors do this. David Mamet does this with plays. He’ll do one complete draft, put it in a drawer, then start a new one. The idea is to go back and cover the important things, knowing more now about the overall flow and shape of the piece. After he has two to five versions of the same story, with different approaches to the staging, the dialogue, and the characters, he then combines them — which makes editing more interesting, if more complicated.

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