Drafts -- some people not clear on the concept...

[Steven Oppenheimer <writer -at- writemaster -dot- com>]

All I want to say, in brief reply to the comments below, is that I have 
repeatedly found that many people just don't get the concept of a 
draft.  It irritates the hell out of me, and unlike "Doc", the second 
poster below, I am not sympathetic to the fact that these anal-retentive 
citizens may have nothing better to do with their weekends than nit-pick 
rough drafts.

There must be some personality type (or types) on the Myers-Briggs schema 
that simply cannot grasp, cannot appreciate that some things (documents, 
songs, rough cuts of films) come in rough, provisional form, and are simply 
preliminary expressions of initial stream-of-consciousness 
creativity.  These same people also don't seem to grasp that flaws can be 
easily, quickly fixed with simple editing ("Ooh, aah, look it's a WORD 
PROCESSOR with CUT and PASTE and DELETE and INSERT!"  "A what?  What 
millenium are we living in?....").  These people, with these personality 
types, should be banned from all management positions.  Or, at the very 
least, they should be barred by law from looking at anything until it's in 
at least its third draft.

Steve Oppenheimer
Marketing and Technical Writing
writer -at- writemaster -dot- com
www.writemaster.com