Let me begin by making a confession: I am a bit of a fusspot. In my writing, I like to shape my sentences in terms both of sense and rhythm as I write them. I don’t expect perfection – but I don’t like my first draft to be that radically different from my final. This week on the water I often say that this habit was developed over the years I wrote drama scripts, where inevitably writers have less time to write them than they’d like. Frequently there isn’t in fact time to write a second draft...