The author and her editor exchanged quite a few drafts, edits and emails as they took "Banking Diet" from first draft to final version.
Months later, eFeuilleton excavated their inboxes. Fortunately, no marauding tomb raider had broken in and cleaned them out. The artifacts were intact, exactly as they had abandoned them--dusty, but intact.
eFeuilleton examined these curiosities with amazement. Did these people really obsess over the introductory sentence for six days? How could the idea that this story was about sin, moral outrage, and repentance not dawn on them until the 11th hour?
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They never intended to reveal to the public this scaffolding--and eFeuilleton didn't throw a coat of paint on it last night--so it is as true a record of their process as any archeologist could hope to find.
To see the artifacts in a single pdf file--from first draft to last-- all laid out in a row-- click here.
