Wednesday I finished a long essay I’d been working on for a while, and immediately went for a bike ride, with a great feeling of satisfaction.
The essay was still a rough draft. In the old days, that meant it was written in longhand on pages torn from a yellow legal pad. After days of tweaking, I would type it up and then send it out.
Now, my rough draft is always typed, of course, but single-spaced. When it’s as good as I can make it, I click on the tool bar and make it double-spaced. It's the final, cosmetic act that makes it ready to go out into the world.
