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Proof that your first draft was just a rough draft of thinking.

means The act of looking at something again and changing it to make it better or more accurate.

from From Latin revisio, built from re- ('again') plus visio ('seeing'), itself from videre ('to see'). So to revise is, quite literally, to re-see — to look at your own work as if for the first time.

latin root
literally means to see again
common myth
editing typos is not revision
writers secret
good writing is mostly rewriting
hemingway rule
he rewrote endings dozens of times
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