The Draft

For professional writers, the completion of a draft often marks the most exciting stage of any project. Suddenly, the author sees, however incompletely, what s/he was trying to say. Often, that 'saying' is a surprise. For, interwoven between the intended and the planned. lies the contingent and the fortuitous, the ideas, themes, scenes, metaphors, sentences and words the writer discovers while writing. In a draft, the writing ambushes the writer.

Attempting a draft is the writer's invitation to inspiration, the opening up of a space where ideas can spark, swirl, collide and reinvent themselves. When Frank O'Hara tells us why he is not a painter, he also tells us how much artistic creation relies on creating, revising, creating and revising, sometimes until the original inspiration has vanished completely. When you draft, you entrust yourself to the best writing workshop you can find.

Now...The Specifics