Writers Should Probably Be Called Rewriters

Rewriting is what we spend most of our time doing. And it's one of my favourite parts of the writing process.

I’m going on vacation to Japan next week, which I’m really looking forward to, having not been to Japan since 1994—I bet it’s changed a lot! Once I’m home and the kids return to school, I have to sit down and start redrafting my 2026 book. I have a first draft that’s messy, gappy, and occasionally—I hope!—not too bad. But I need to transform it from a m…