> if you have to sit there and > rewrite it again and again > don't do it. I've heard of many writers - fiction, non-fiction, poets, all types - who do rewrite

> if you have to sit there and > rewrite it again and again > don't do it. I've heard of many writers - fiction, non-fiction, poets, all types - who do rewrite things again and again. I don't see why that wouldn't make them a writer. If anything, it seems the desire to improve a piece is a desirable trait.