[MysticCat]

Well, I have to admit that I've never had the person I was doing a recommendation for write the first draft, nor would I. I would tell him to send me the form/info, but that's it. My feeling is that if he asks me for a recommendation, then he needs to be willing to live with what I want to say, not what he wants me to say.

But you did ask him to do the first draft, and he's failed to follow up. I'd give him one reminder and then forget about it.