@paninid "Writing is rewriting" was the motto of one of my English professors.

When a small room was provided in the computer center (it was the 1980s) for students doing word processing, someone put up a sign with that motto. Someone else changed it, crossing out the word "rewriting" and writing in "editing."

#WritingIsRewriting #WritingIsEditing

You need to research not what 'exists somewhere' but what an intelligent middle aged woman of middling class and some ingenuity could realistically have in 1881.

Arguments with my editor on the first book late 60s included

A college professor and a town sheriff might have had an answering machine

Cars sometimes had seatbelts but there wasn't social pressure to use them

Benzidrine (speed) was available over the counter.

#writerslife #writing #amediting #writingisediting #amwriting