colonelsaunders

Quick question: what is draft? I've seen it referenced on here so often that I decided to create an account for the sole purpose of asking. Here is what I've gathered about it so far: it seems as though there is some magical spreadsheet associated with it that informs everyone but me on which programs are currently sending out rejections. Also, no one else has asked what it is, so it must be relatively popular, but when I try to find it on google I'm only met with sports articles and various dictionary definitions. Then when I rephrase my question as, "draft creative writing MFA," all I find are more equally useless articles, some of which being quite deceptive, like a post made on r/Writing titled, "what is draft?" which turned out to be someone asking what a literal draft was. I think I'm going insane here, and I'm starting to believe it's one big inside joke created for the sake of torturing me, Colonelsaunders, which, yes, yes, is my legal first name, and no, my parents are not fans of George Saunders, so don't go thinking my name is some sort of half-baked pun. They just made a typo on my birth certificate. And I'd appreciate it if no one who replies to this post comments on my name because it's a big insecurity of mine. With love and care, Colonelsaunders Anders-Flanders Gillanders Jr.