Rewrite. Edit. Proofread. Rewrite. Rewrite again. Months later, many more rewrites. Script reading party at your house: catch typos, dump clunkers and cliché’s, then rewrite. Are you seeing a pattern here?
Don’t like rewrites? Married to every word are you? Reconsider and rewrite. If and when you are lucky enough to get sold, and that’s our hope for the talented and tenacious out there, you will be up against …
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
~James Michener~
Memo from BABZ
More rewrites. Colored pages. More rewrites. New colors--new pages.
Rewrites. It’s on my license plate. It’s the most important point when I teach my writing class. It needs to be in your DNA. The sooner you learn to love rewrites, the better at rewrites you will become, and the sooner you will get sold.