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https://clearwaterpress.com/oneyearnovel/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/07/oyan-blog-pottery-facebook.jpg1200630By Jared Schmitz, Guest Contributor How do you view the early drafts of your writing projects? Do you view them as blocks of stone requiring smoothing and carving into shape, but essentially complete? Or do you view them more as lumps of clay, likely needing to be fully reshaped more than once?