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Before Breakfast

Keep your Legos

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

Mind the depths of God's Word and ignite your faith with pray.com's new podcast, the heartbeat of faith with me, Dr. Andrew Farley.

0:10.5

The beast raged against him, but he was not equal to the Lord of Lords.

0:14.6

God's chosen hero, the Messiah, Jesus Christ, had defeated evil once and for all.

0:21.7

Listen to the heartbeat of faith on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:33.7

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

0:38.7

Good morning.

0:40.7

This is Laura.

0:42.7

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:45.7

Today's tip is to keep great pieces of work you produce.

0:50.7

Even if you don't end up using the work in the way you thought you would.

0:54.7

What's on the cutting room floor today might be just what you want in the future.

1:01.7

Today's tip like another this week comes from my interview with Mary Laura Philpott for my other podcast, Best of Both Worlds.

1:10.7

Mary Laura is a writer best known for her memoirs, I miss you when I blink and bomb shelter.

1:17.7

In our conversation about her writing and editing process, Mary Laura told me that she saves everything she writes.

1:25.7

Rather than saving one draft over the next, she archives past drafts.

1:31.7

That way if she decides that she likes how she structured a narrative better in an earlier draft than the latest draft,

1:38.7

she can easily restore the earlier text to her piece.

1:43.7

By archiving, she gets over the fear that she'll cut something she wishes she hadn't.

1:49.7

This allows her to edit boldly as she puts it.

1:53.7

She explained, I never want to be shy about edits, because I'm worried I can't get something back.

2:01.7

This is such a smart strategy.

2:06.7

In addition to keeping old drafts intact, Mary Laura also has a document titled Legos,

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