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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out.

I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.

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.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done.

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.