11-04-2003, 03:57 AM
quicksand_boy Wrote:It's not called "rewriting". Rewriting is where you start from scratch. You just have to proofread your own work. When you're finished, go back and read each sentence to yourself, slowly, and look for misspelled words, improper comma use, missing capital letters, all that stuff. Seriously, don't just skip it. Get good at it now because people notice mistakes like those and unfortunately will judge you for it the rest of your life, only there will be bigger consequences.
Well, Rewriting is not simply starting from scratch. Rewriting could be a change of charater (perhaps writing a parallel from another character's viewpoint), or a change of voice (changing from first-person to third-person) in the process of editing your writing. It could also be inserting new material to improve the story (as in adding descriptions) or removing material that was unnecessary or unrelated to the story (pruning).
Proofreading only corrects errors that are already existing in the story, rewriting allows the addition of new material or removal of entire sections of old material.