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I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.

I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise because I've changed massive things about the story. By the time I get to the end of a first draft, I've been through the beginning lots of times.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it.

I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.