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When authors say they are working on their 2nd draft, does that mean they completely started over or they are doing revisions on their first?

That depends on the author! When I say I’m working on a second draft, what I mean is that I wrote the first draft, turned it in to my editor, and now I am implementing the notes she gave me. So basically my second draft means I’m editing. A lot of authors prefer to gut their entire manuscript and start over, using the first draft for notes mostly. But every writer is different.

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“It’s because of all those things. It’s because of your strength, but it’s because of your goodness too, and your softness. You act like you inherited nothing from your mother, but that’s not true. There’s—there’s poetry in you.”

He inhales sharply, the arm around me tightening and his fingers twisting into my hair, tugging at it, tugging me close. I can’t breathe—I don’t want to. When he speaks his...

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When I started Stargate, I got the part, I was SO thrilled to have this INCREDIBLE character, to be playing someone in the military. I had SO much respect, to be playing someone who’s so smart and so liberated and… I thought “Yes!”

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Amie: Man, if only it had been science fiction with dinosaurs. We'd basically be Anne McCaffrey at that point.

Amie: Man, if only it had been science fiction with dinosaurs. We'd basically be Anne McCaffrey at that point.

Meg: BIO ENGINEERED DINOSAURS--oh wait. That's Jurassic Park. With spaceships.

Meg: Ian Malcolm would point out that the raptors would figure out lightspeed travel and come eat everyone on earth.

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“It’s never, never, never the woman’s fault. No man has a right to raise a hand to a woman. No means no. […] The one regret I have is we call it domestic violence as if it’s a domesticated cat. It is the most vicious form of violence there is, because not only the physical scars are left, the psychological scars that are left. This whole culture for so long has put the onus on the woman. What were you wearing? What did you say? What did you do to provoke? That is never the appropriate questio...

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“Baby Groot dancing is 100 percent me. I was too embarrassed for anyone to be there, so I made everyone leave the room and I set up a camera and I videotaped myself dancing. Then I sent the video to the animators and had them animate over that. I begged them not to leak the video! Two of my closest friends came to an early screening and said ‘Hey, I recog...