It’s Time to Stop Worshipping at the Altar of the Rewrite

Rachel Tonks Hill
Nov 4 · 7 min read
Photo by Amaury Gutierrez on Unsplash

There are a lot of writers out there who will claim that rewriting is the only writing.

You know who they are. Your favourite author is probably one of them.

These writers have bought into the idea that no one can write a good novel, essay or poem on the first try, and that first drafts are intrinsically bad just because they’re first…

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