Some writers literally cut and paste when drafting books

posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 12 November, 2009 to the comment subset

It seems no two authors adhere to the same writing or composing methods

Booker-prize winner Michael Ondaatje’s preferred medium is 8½-by-11-inch Muji brand lined notebooks. He completes the first three or four drafts by hand, sometimes literally cutting and pasting passages and whole chapters with scissors and tape. Some of his notebooks have pages with four layers underneath.

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