Writing is an art which is not given to everyone by birth but, only some special ones get that. In an article by Beth Shope, “True writing is Rewriting”, he wrote that it’s nothing written, it’s rewritten. He also wrote about different tactics to be looked when rewriting.

In his article about rewriting, Beth mentioned the comparison between writing your first draft and building a house. Whenever I try to write my first draft, most of the times, it has some structural mistakes so it’s similar to a builder who produces a house with structural flaws.

Most of the times, I found difficulties in writing my second drafts. As, writing the first draft is just putting ideas on paper but, the second draft have to be in a proper way and somewhat better than the draft. While writing the next drafts, it’s better to be without any prejudice to make our rewriting more effective. That’s why Secret #2 was really important to me.

According to me, Secret #1 was the most important. In Secret #1, Beth explained about writing that, once is never enough and also compared the topic of rewriting to building a house. He elucidated in the article how some builder-built houses over decorated and cluttered. In the article, Beth writes “Anyone can think up a story and write it down. This doesn’t necessarily imply talent, only the ability to type (or hold a pen), ……….but skill is not a prerequisite.” (B. Shope, True writing is rewriting, 2002), which is actually true as the actual value of writing is about the capability of rewriting. Writing down your ideas on paper can be done by anyone so then, what will be the difference between professional writers and regular writers.

Reference: –

Shope, B. (2002). True writing is rewriting. In G. Lazette, (Ed.) Vision: A Resource for Writers. Retrieved from Vision@sff.net