(re)writing

I'm often asked how many drafts a book goes through before it's published. There are actually two separate editing processes involved in writing a book. The one that most people are familiar with is the work an author does with a publisher's editor. This is what turns a manuscript (a novel the author thought was finished) into a book (a novel which is actually finished!). However, before a piece of work even sees an editor it will already have been rewritten, probably several times.The major...