The project eventually fell through, but the writers, who still owned the rights to the original story, rewrote the Screenplay, removing the elements taken from 'Total Recall'.

Rewriting: The writer rewrites someone else's script for pay.

Morris' writers would rewrite a teleplay four hundred times if it was required of them, and never complain.

The two writers had no specific actors in mind while developing the story but rewrote details when the leads had been cast.

Latin writers rewrote Hermes' myths and substituted his name with that of Mercury.

To find a solution, a writer may rewrite a scene in each.

Executive producer Susan Bower defended the storyline when she was asked why the writers had rewritten Sonya and Callum's history.

To achieve this, the writer must rewrite, slash and ellipsize, a process that can be likened, in cooking, to the reduction of meat to make stock.

I think especially as a new writer you have to do enough rewrites, and you have to cut, even brutally, what's not moving along.

The Home and Away writers had previously rewritten several scripts to allow Gordon to spend as much time as possible with Burkhardt.