And incidentally, necessary business concerning the sending out of manuscripts, he does not subconsciously consider, should be considered part of his writing day.
You should realize that I'm only talking about my own personal mode of writing here; in actual practice, rewriting varies greatly from writer to writer.
To illustrate these mindsets in action, I'm going to take you back to 19th-century France, where this innocuous-looking piece of paper launched one of the biggest political scandals in history.
Jo unfolded it, and looked much abashed, for it was one of her own contributions to a paper that paid for poetry, which accounted for her sending it an occasional attempt.
Written by Samuel Alito, it argues that Roe v Wade, the ruling in 1973 that secured women's right to an abortion, " was egregiously wrong from the start" and must be overruled.