drafts

Hey all, I have a question: What do you count as one draft? For years, I counted "one draft" as one complete MS read through, whether structural changes or something else. Only this morning I decided that's too hard to track (it's always been hard to track). For my current MS, I'm...

The Colony has a little-known, but useful feature – drafts: Drafts will be kept for 24 hours and then auto-deleted. Just hit the Save button. The draft you've saved will be presented to you automatically when you re-create the draft's context, i.e. by starting a thread in a forum or post a reply.

'First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it... Revision is one of the true pleasures of writing.' Bernard Malamud