Rewrite 30 or 40 Times.

“It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works of genius?”

-James N. Frey-

author of 

How to Write a Damn Good Novel: 

A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling