# Cut up your draft with Mason Currey

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Podcast: [This Might Work](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-might-work-7856602)
Published: 2026-06-10T05:00:00+00:00
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What if the answer to a stuck or stalling writing project wasn't to sit back down at your desk - but to pick up a pair of scissors? In this episode of This Might Work , host Bec Evans explores the cut-and-reassemble method developed by Mason Currey, bestselling author of Daily Rituals , who turns redrafting into what he calls a funky art project. Then she puts it to the test with Harriet Mason, a professional copywriter tackling her first novel, who prints out her entire manuscript, clears the kitchen table, and starts cutting. Can getting physical with your words unlock what staring at a screen couldn't? About the guests Mason Currey: Mason Currey is the author of the Daily Rituals books - Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (2013) and Daily Rituals: Women at Work (2019) - featuring brief profiles of the day-to-day working lives of more than 300 great creative minds. His brilliant new book Making Art and Making a Living examines the collision of creative ambitions with real-world necessities and the compromises that gifted individuals have patched together when facing the eternal dilemma of funding an artistic life. Currey lives in Los Angeles and writes Subtle Maneuvers , a twice-monthly newsletter on the creative process. Currey lives in Los Angeles and writes Subtle Maneuvers, a twice-monthly newsletter on the creative process. Harriet Mason: Harriet Mason is a professional writer, storyteller and communication specialist based in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. She started writing her own stories in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Fish Short Memoir Prize in 2023 , published in The London Writer’s Salon anthology 2024 and she is currently writing a novel set in the 1920s. You can find Harriet on Instagram: harriet_moorcommunication or Substack: In Other Words . For bonus mate…

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