The joy of rewriting

Spent some of the morning rewriting the first 70 pages of an unfinished screenplay I found, which now I plan to finish. Rewriting is by far the most fun part of the writing process. It is slow, contemplative, less frenzied than the fragile writing of a first draft, when ideas are so nebulous and a loud noise can ruin the moment. There is a certain psychological stability in rewriting than makes it refreshingly stable and enjoyable.