Giving Rewriting Your Best: Read What Bores You

E. B. White once said, “The best writing is rewriting.”

I could not agree more. My first drafts tend to be horribly unfinished affairs. There are characters appearing out of nowhere, plot lines introduced clumsily, scenes out of order. I don’t go back and revise anything until an entire draft is finished, so you’d be surprised how many mistakes I let slide.

I do this because, as a writer, I have one of the greatest tools at my disposal known to humankind. I have the ability to go back and fixmy...