Smoothly Tooled, Roughly Drafted Dept.

I spent most of yesterday without Internet access — I'm reminded once again why a reliance on network-based Web apps is such an awful idea; why make the network your single point of failure when we can't even reliably guarantee how fast it runs, let alone whether or not it runs at all? — so I had time to muse over a few things about my writing workflow. Skip this post if you find writerly minutiae numbing.

First off,Welcome to the Fold's first draft was closed as of the other night. It's a ro...