First drafts

Tabitha Olson at the Writer Musings blog is hosting a special series of guest posts on first drafts. When I was planning mine, I thought: Since there's no teacher like example, why not write the post as a first draft, and leave it uncorrected?

Which is exactly how I began. The first quarter of the post is still in its raw, unedited state, while the rest of the post is more polished and coherent.

I hope this proves useful, inspiring, and even somewhat amusing. :-)

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