A somewhat related tangent is the idea that "writing is rewriting". Hardly, if ever, is a first draft suitable for publication, not just because it's rough-hewn or unrefined but also because requirements for some chapters change once others are written. The feedback loops between dependent parts of a written piece are dynamic, not static.

(Yet another reason why LLMs are so limited: they take their earlier writing as sacred and unchanging as a direct consequence of their autoregressive structure.)