So, you’ve finished the first draft of your book. That’s great, and you should be proud. But don’t crack open the champaign just yet—there’s still much to be done.

I’ve harped time and time again on the importance of rewriting and how it is necessary to extract the highest quality from your writing. A lot of people resist the idea of rewriting—I mean, you just spent months or years writing your, why would you start over? That sounds like a special form of masochism.