ABSTRACT
The most essential aspect of rewriting has to do with a writer’s attitude. Barbara Greenberg, a Boston poet, and coauthor of the children’s musical Jeremy and the Thinking Machine, as well as a teacher of creative writing, gave the following advice: to rewrite: first, to edit out whatever seems inauthentic, derivative and/or lazy. Ernest Hemingway would go back over his work every day, from the beginning, and rewrite. This was critical to his process. Tina Howe, New York playwright and professor of writing for theater at Hunter College in New York had the following to say about the process of rewriting: writing a play is an exercise in stamina, blind faith and insanity. In the process of writing the play, and through several workshops, its focus changed vastly.
