I think "rewrite" comes into it more if you're working on a novel-length piece and you actually have to do things like, say, cut a character or a plot line or completely rethink one of your original assumptions. Maybe some people are so perfect to begin with that this never happens, but it happens to me all the time, as well as to the people I write with. I mean, I threw away about 100 pages of my last novel , because I realized that, though they were fun to read and nicely put-together, they ended up taking the plot in a circle and not moving it forward. So yes, that was rewriting.
I usually go with "revision." Some writers get all cutesy with calling it "re-VISION" but there is truth to this despite the cutesy.
....Um, I'm babbling on way too much about stuff you don't even want to hear, right?
Better to go forward and worry about it later! Isn't that the whole point of Nano (says she who has never done it and doesn't get the appeal)?
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Date: 2008-11-03 02:29 pm (UTC)I think "rewrite" comes into it more if you're working on a novel-length piece and you actually have to do things like, say, cut a character or a plot line or completely rethink one of your original assumptions. Maybe some people are so perfect to begin with that this never happens, but it happens to me all the time, as well as to the people I write with. I mean, I threw away about 100 pages of my last novel , because I realized that, though they were fun to read and nicely put-together, they ended up taking the plot in a circle and not moving it forward. So yes, that was rewriting.
I usually go with "revision." Some writers get all cutesy with calling it "re-VISION" but there is truth to this despite the cutesy.
....Um, I'm babbling on way too much about stuff you don't even want to hear, right?
Better to go forward and worry about it later! Isn't that the whole point of Nano (says she who has never done it and doesn't get the appeal)?