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- Revision involves both cutting and adding. Sometimes a scene contains too much explanation and needs restraint.
- At other times, a story lacks the context, detail, or emotional development necessary for readers to understand it.

- Revision means learning what you actually mean
- A writer may begin a story with one intention and discover something more complicated while revising it.
- The first draft records an initial understanding

- The goal is not simply to make every sentence beautiful. It is to discover what the story needs to become

Rather than treating revision as merely correcting grammar or polishing sentences, the book approaches it as a creative process involving difficult choices: what to cut, what to preserve, what to clarify, and what to leave ambiguous

Boredom, as any child knows, is the soil for daydreaming, for imagination. Every writer is a writer because they were bored—as a kid, in college, at work. Boredom isn’t the end, it’s just a phase of the process—often the one right before a breakthrough we can only outwait it.

Good point about constructive criticism

I realized that I’ve read this before.

Funny when he said it’s American to not like revising and compares it to the constitution.

And all the examples that has to do with everyday revising (jk Rowling saying dumbledore is gay, revising physics numbers to get ones that seem right), etc etc