Neil Gaiman's Two-Draft Rule | Daily Essay
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Each book Neil Gaiman writes gets written twice. He writes the first draft by hand, because a pen is slow enough to think a sentence all the way through, then types the whole thing up. Lucretius, Darwin's finches and Chris Rock all ran the same test. Featuring: Neil Gaiman, Chris Rock, Stephen Greenblatt, Poggio Bracciolini, Peter Sims, Rosemary Grant, Jonathan Weiner Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. Chapters: (00:00) Seneca on fire testing gold (00:06) Neil Gaiman writes each book twice (00:15) Copying principles by hand each month (00:26) Lucretius's poem survives a copy of a copy (01:06) The Grants track finch beaks on Daphne Major (01:31) Chris Rock tests jokes at the Stress Factory (01:53) The cost of the test Where to find Dru: I write an essay daily. Get them free Follow me on X Watch my video essays on YouTube Follow Dru's Notes on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day. Click here to view the episode transcript.
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Each book Neil Gaiman writes gets written twice. He writes the first draft by hand, because a pen is slow enough to think a sentence all the way through, then types the whole thing up. Lucretius, Darwin's finches and Chris Rock all ran the same test.
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