HomeTo people who write fiction/papers/reports/proposals, etc. How much do you find yourself rewriting from scratch versus editing existing material? Do you prefer adapting something that already exists....or re-creating it yourself?
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How Much Do You Rewrite?
Marc™- …is a Chamber DEITY.
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I don't tend to mess with other people's work other than in my head.
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I'm constantly rewriting my stuff but I never rewrite the writing of other people although I might do if I were in the workplace and that was my job. I often have trouble getting my thoughts written down exactly as I want them so I'm re-arranging sentences and paragraphs until it suits me. 
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My trouble is I write something, leave it and don't come back for 5 years..I go on and write more and sometimes it is similar to what I wrote last year, but how the hell do I remember? It is buried in one of the 100s of spiral notebooks I have stacked in a rubbermaid tote..
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I had an idea for a nudist magazine article and submitted it. Didn't get published so I put it away.
Years later, I saw something that triggered the exact idea for an article. I had completely forgotten the one I wrote and wrote another. They are almost verbatim.
(At least I can remember my creative ideas, if not the fact that I put them down on paper already.)
Years later, I saw something that triggered the exact idea for an article. I had completely forgotten the one I wrote and wrote another. They are almost verbatim.
(At least I can remember my creative ideas, if not the fact that I put them down on paper already.)
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Completed ONE notebook. At least now it is on the computer / digital. What is amazing is that as I was entering the pieces in word, I remembered (almost all) the words and phrases I had written 13 years ago...kind of scary huh?...
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