The second draft entails me rekeying the text into a computer – which in turn explains why doing the first draft manually isn't really that onerous; after all, if you know you're going to have to rewrite a work entirely, you can afford to be a little more cavalier when you attack the blank page.
Despite the friction between them, Balakirev was the only man who ever persuaded Tchaikovsky to rewrite a work several times, as he did with Romeo and Juliet.
A powerful or convincing editor can push an author to entirely change the scope of a book, or can essentially rewrite a work.
Rewriting a student's work does not enable the student to do the task.
In 1996, the tiny Gate theatre in London's Notting Hill invited Sarah to rewrite a classical work.
A great deal of his work is rewriting, a process he compares to cutting and editing a film – "what you leave out is the most important" – often revisiting stories many months later.
But when you rewrite an entire work, you find things you forgot, you transform the story and find the essence of the work.
But when you rewrite an entire work, you find things you forgot, you transform the story and find the essence of the work, you carve your novel into stone where it stays forever.
And I always loved Ionesco, since way back, but he's hard to do.So, will we be seeing more David Rabe plays in the future?Well, I'm rewriting a novel that I've worked on a number of times and I keep thinking it's done and then it isn't.
Both became bestsellers, translated into more than 20 languages and with 2m copies in print.Mr Beevor's latest trawl through these same archives, far from resulting in a new book, has led him instead to rewrite an earlier work, his 1982 account of the Spanish civil war.
