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Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 23, 2018 at 07:58 AM
Ah, yes, well, (koff, hak), during my halcyon second year, I did (ahem) find myself working to some pretty tight deadlines, so I developed a very similar method to our good journalist in part to get through all the stuff I had to deal with before my 9.00 a.m. tutorial. Ah, I still remember wandering the grounds of Worcester College, Oxford at 5.00 a.m. in the morning, admiring the mist drifting over the lake, marvelling at the mad mathematician in his bow tie (still attempting to play croquet in the middle of the lawn even though he was completely rat-a*sed), wondering what on earth my tutor would make of my half-crazed, coffee-fuelled ramblings… those were the days…
So yeah, a bit more than three hours. Usually.
Hugh wrote:
>I hope you never had a three-hour deadline to meet, though, Bill!
Posted by Hugh
Jul 23, 2018 at 08:31 AM
Amontillado wrote:
Aggregating without attribution is a low practice. I assume it’s
>commonplace, but it’s still a low practice.
>
>His comments on outlining sound valid, though.
>
>There are those who claim not to outline. The “pantser” community, and
>let me be quick to distance myself from the term. It’s not a word I like
>to use.
>
>I submit that the zeroth draft of anything needs work. For some, draft
>zero is a month’s work, 25,000 words long. For others, draft zero covers
>the same ground with a 1000 word bullet list, or a hierarchical outline,
>or something along those lines.
>
>The only question for me is do I want to work for weeks to create my
>draft zero, or do I want to work an afternoon?
>
I so much agree. When filming, there’s also another reason. Not outlining costs money - in wasted shooting. (It cost much more money in the days when you could muster a football team from a film crew.)
Posted by Hugh
Jul 23, 2018 at 08:42 AM
MadaboutDana wrote:
Ah, yes, well, (koff, hak), during my halcyon second year, I did (ahem)
>find myself working to some pretty tight deadlines, so I developed a
>very similar method to our good journalist in part to get through all
>the stuff I had to deal with before my 9.00 a.m. tutorial. Ah, I still
>remember wandering the grounds of Worcester College, Oxford at 5.00 a.m.
>in the morning, admiring the mist drifting over the lake, marvelling at
>the mad mathematician in his bow tie (still attempting to play croquet
>in the middle of the lawn even though he was completely rat-a*sed),
>wondering what on earth my tutor would make of my half-crazed,
>coffee-fuelled ramblings… those were the days…
>
>So yeah, a bit more than three hours. Usually.
>
Happy days, Bill.