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rewrite [′rē‚rīt]
(computer science)
The process of restoring a storage device to its state prior to reading; used when the information-storing state may be destroyed by reading.
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It is quite common to do comprehensive rewrites of the first few scenes, as the story you really wanted to write didn''t surface until after you''d really got cracking.
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He sticks to the practical and uses a variety of examples to illustrate his seven strategies, including gaining new perspectives, prioritizing the big scenes, tracking the transitions, plotting corrections, getting new information, developing the dialogue pass and performing "on-the-nose" rewrites.
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On a CD-RW, you'll find three sets of numbers: the first is the speed at which it writes data, the second is the speed at which it rewrites data, and the third tells you how fast it erases the information (for example, 8x/4x/32x).
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