This is so dope. Wired Magazine (one of my favorites) is doing a blog of sorts detailing the creation of one of their stories (!) a profile on Charlie Kaufman for their November issue. They’re basically going through the entire process of how a feature gets into a magazine…from the idea stage to the final copy. Pitching the idea to shaping the story to the assignment letter to submitting a rough draft:

Filing a rough draft always makes me a little queasy, and this one was no exception. I always feel the urge to write a note to my editor explaining the choices I made, stuff to look out for, etc., but usually am able to resist — really, the editor should be coming to this blind, like any reader would. But for the sake of transparency, and if you’ll pardon a little (more) self-indulgence, here are a few of the elements that gave me the most trouble as I tried to write this thing:

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