author: Nicole J. LeBoeuf

In honor of the thing I am currently stuck on (but hoping to come unstuck on, like, now), a link.

And in case you're like me and don't click links unless you're given a very good reason, here's the introductory excerpt:

The second draft is where the fun is. In a first draft, you get to explode. The objective (at least for me) is to get it down on paper, somehow. Battle through the laziness and the not-enough-time and the this-is-rubbish and everything else, and just get it written. Whatever it takes. The second draft is where you go and gather together the fragments of the explosion and figure out what it is you did, and make it look like that was what you always meant to do....

Read it. Read it even if you think it sounds like old hat. Read it especially if you think it's gonna be old hat.

(Bonus! Contains inside insight into the creation of The Graveyard Book! You know you wanna.)