In the Name of Freedom (e.g.)

Favorite Line

"Shoulds" troubled her. A woman should keep house, should marry, should have children. Mary Katharine believed a woman should not be...

underestimated.

Early Draft

…she kept her head down and kept printing. New, big ideas.
Her bold stories scared some people.

How it changed

In later drafts, we slowed the moments down. We fleshed out how everything Mary Katharine was doing was so unprecedented for the time she lived in. When we told it from her perspective rather than just about her, this resulted in lines with a lot more emotion.