The second draft is where the writing starts
Most of what we admire in finished work was put there on a later pass. A year of kept drafts, counted.
Essays, interviews and notes, newest first
Eighty-four pieces from fourteen issues. Members read them all; everyone gets three a month.
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I.Essays
Arguments about how work gets done, at length.
What a bread starter knows about deadlines
It won't rise on your schedule. A baker's case for planning around the slow part.
Maintenance is a craft, not a chore
The people who keep things running have a skill we rarely name. An argument for naming it.
Keeping every draft
Part one of On revision: the folder, the habit and the first surprise.
II.Interviews
People who make things well, in their own words.
A furniture maker on the joint nobody sees
Thirty years of drawers, and why the back of one gets the same care as the front.
A sign painter on lettering a word once
No undo, no second coat. What a brush teaches about commitment.
A piano tuner's year in 1,100 visits
The same 230 strings, every house different, and the notebook that keeps track.
III.Notebook
Short pieces: a rule, a tool, a habit worth stealing.
New pieces, every Saturday
The Saturday letter brings one new piece, three things worth your time and a note from the editor.