Friday, January 14, 2011

The Joys of the Rewrite...

Some authors, if you ask them, will say they wrote exactly what they meant to, word for word, page for page, leading you down into their interpritation of reality as if it was seamless and required no after thought. Some authors will admit to painstacking brain and writer's block, horrific times double checking sections of their writing to make sure that all was as they had wished it to be. Some will however, go so far as to tell you that they re-wrote the whole novel after beginning it, some will even tell you that there were multiple re-writes.

Then there are the relative few (or many, depending on how you view it), that rewrite their books after they have been published. You heard me right. Many authors, contrary to teh belief, rewrite their books after they have already been published. The following is an article about just that phenomenon. See if you have ever noticed these, though many of them are older books, they are still fantastical books. Enjoy:

Writer's who Rewrite

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