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Savannah Rose Whitaker... I've got emails from her in my trash bin as well. Lol

Yes. I'm getting more and more of these types of emails and they all want $$ for promotion for old books. Here's one from yesterday: (What the hell does that first sentence even mean?). Hi James, I’ve been thinking about My War with Hemingway...

My brother lives on the border of insanity, crossing into it every time he feels well enough to skip his medication.

You're welcome to come anytime--I was describing my garden. :)

Welcome aboard @Stuart G :) Have you read Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennet? It's a fantasy crime thriller but really unique which sounds up your alley.

Newborn Litopian here, freshly traumatised by a wishlist that I wouldn't wish on my best enemy, courtesy of @AgentPete Looking forward to burning off people's eyebrows in The Lab and having mine burned off in return. My goal is to find an...

You're welcome to come anytime--I was describing my garden. :)

So true about that first draft and after is a fog of drafts. Nothing important, just a discussion on everyone's process :)

What's a draft? Every time I finish another run-through and temporarily fool myself that this is it, the best I could do, maybe a few minor tweaks needed, but this is the one. And then I let people look at it, and very, very quickly realise it's...

It's easy to identify the first draft - that's when I've written something in its entirety but not edited it. The subsequent versions and edits are too unwieldy to identify or quantify as drafts I suppose I could count the number of saved...

Different for each writer. Hard to define.

Hi @Stuart G Welcome to Litopia. I hope you're settling in. I'm excited to witness your experiments, but please don't burn the Lab down. There's an instructional video here: How to use the lab and more Maybe we should have emphasised the...

What's a draft? Every time I finish another run-through and temporarily fool myself that this is it, the best I could do, maybe a few minor tweaks needed, but this is the one. And then I let people look at it, and very, very quickly realise it's...

hello Stuart, and welcome. I'm intrigued to know what title you've chosen for the gorilla thing - sounds fabulously unique. xx B

Hey all, I have a question: What do you count as one draft? For years, I counted "one draft" as one complete MS read through, whether structural changes or something else. Only this morning I decided that's too hard to track (it's always been...