Then, over the years, he revised and revised the ballet.
One fault is that he revises and revises.
She wrote a short essay to prove her eligibility, which Mr. Wininger had her revise, and revise and revise again, until it was only three pages long.
On other occasions, he made dinner while she revised, and revised again, her dissertation.
I feel like I have some of that, always wanting to make things better, revise and revise, when I'm producing a song".
A sequence of 13 sketches he did for a single cover illustration demonstrates his method: Develop an idea by increment, revise and revise.
"We avoid linear processes," says Burns. "We shoot without a script, interview without a script," and revise and revise like madmen.
But then you revise and revise, then revise some more.
Then he's happy, he's relieved, because once he's got those ideas on the screen he can revise and revise and revise.
As for age: to the young writer the world is fresh and the task is to learn to write and then to learn to revise (and revise and revise).
