Writing Processes – Part 2: Redrafting

I didn't see Star Wars when it first came out. The first time I saw it was on video, in the Autumn of 1982, shortly before my thirteenth birthday. I always thought the timing was significant. Up to that point, boys had been an alien species. But then, on the brink of puberty, I saw Star Wars and all of a sudden I was having strange and confusing feelings about the very cute farm boy and the very hunky space pirate.

Anyway, to cut a long story short I made up for lost time and became a...