Welcome to the first installment of My Writing Toolkit, where I share my efforts to strengthen and galvanize my writing, including real samples of my own rough drafts – both before and after! These adventures, for the foreseeable future, are largely intended to improve the quality of my prose rather than focus on big-picture, structural issues.
Why do this on a rough draft, when some of this may change or vanish altogether in future drafts? Why not just wait until later?
Three reasons!