The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people.

You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.