If at first you don't succeed... by Cathy Ace

Craft: How rough or polished are your first drafts?Do you dare show us?

What I call “my first draft” is not necessarily what otherswould call their first draft.

What’s mine?

Before I even sit down to type a first draft:

I have the plot sorted from start to finish, all my researchis done, everyone is named and their backstories sorted. Also I have anoutline, and I have notes for every chapter containing about who iswhere, when, what happens, why it happens, what I want the reader to know...