If this is how Famous Author does it, shouldn’t I do it this way, too?

Writing is rewriting, quoth the sage.  How, exactly, do writing and revising share one writing brain?  Should all the writing be done before the revising begins?  One successful author revises as she writes, even going back to the beginning to change elements as new ideas come to her.  Some writers can work this way.  For others, this striving for daily perfection produces nothing more useful than a trunk full of novels that end on page 47.

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