[DoctorOW]

> I always found this frustrating in high school, as some assignments required submission of a first draft, second draft, and final version of a paper. I always wrote the final version first and then worked backwards to created a second and then a first draft by removing sentences and generally making it worse.

I always did this as well. You are the first other person I've heard describe that.

[teddyh]

Here’s another person reporting the same thing:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM#t=5m10s>

(It’s Larry McEnerney’s very excellent lecture The Craft of Writing Effectively, aimed at writers who are either academians or otherwise experts in some field.)