Stephen King saw The Dark Tower series as a first draft and was planning to rewrite it to eliminate continuity errors and possibly remove himself from the later books, but after revising The Gunslinger he decided a rewrite for the whole series was no longer necessary.

In 1927 he published a short book, On the Poems of Henry Vaughan, Characteristics and Intimations, with his principal Latin poems carefully translated into English verse ( London: H. Cobden-Sanderson, 1927 ), expanding and revising an essay that he had published in November 1926 in the London Mercury.

He did, however, continue revising his Homer for a second edition of his translation, and, aside from writing the powerful and bleak poem " The Castaway ", penned some English translations of Greek verse and turned some of the Fables of John Gay into Latin.

This period of official life from 1830 to 1848 was spent, so far as philosophical study was concerned, in revising his former lectures and writings, in maturing them for publication or reissue, and in research into certain periods of the sophical history of philosophy.

Whereas Wizards of the Coast overhauled the rules for 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons, Kenzer & Company took the opposite action by revising the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons First and Second Edition rules ( including various supplements such as 1st Edition Unearthed Arcana and Oriental Adventures and the mid-90's Skills & Powers supplements ) into a more coherent system and adding an element of parody.

After renting the Haymarket theatre and revising The Minor into a three act version ( up from the two act version presented in Dublin ), the play opened in London.

Balzac conceived his grand project, The Human Comedy, while writing Eugénie Grandet and incorporated it into the Comédie by revising the names of some of the characters in the second edition.

His assistance mainly took the form of revising the beginnings and ends of the stories to make them flow better into a novel – the substance of each story remains the same between the short story version and the novel version.

Nightshift games had given Don Gallagher the task of evolving the background as well as revising Interceptor into the long-announced 2nd Edition and creating the announced Phalanx board game.

Late in his career, during his long tenure on baseball's Rules Committee, that body completed a major overhaul of the rule book, revising it entirely into a greatly improved version which organized the rules by logical subsections.

The pumping station has undergone several modifications since its initial construction, including revising the wheel into two sections each wide separated by a gap.

He continued the work of his philosophical teacher Josiah Royce in revising idealism to integrate and fit into empiricism, naturalism and pragmatism.

Once the initial draft is laid out, editing and revising can be done to fine-tune the draft into a final copy.

A Marxist until his death, Polonsky publicly objected when director Irwin Winkler rewrote his script for 1991's Guilty by Suspicion, a film about the Hollywood blacklist era, by revising the lead character ( Robert De Niro ) into a liberal, rather than a Communist.

Southern Railway will be significantly revising its timetable to incorporate additional services on the Brighton Main Line after its June 2008 takeover of the Gatwick Express ( due to come into effect 14 December 2008 ).

Meckel made numerous recommendations which were implemented, including reorganization of the command structure of the army into divisions and regiments, thus increasing mobility, strengthening the army logistics and transportation structure with the major army bases connected by railways, establishing artillery and engineering regiments as independent commands, and revising the universal conscription system to abolish virtually all exceptions.

Vermes was one of the first scholars to examine the Dead Sea Scrolls after their discovery in 1947, and is the author of the standard translation into English of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Dead Sea Scrolls in English ( 1962 ) He is one of the leading scholars in the field of the study of the historical Jesus ( see Selected Publications, below ) and together with Fergus Millar and Martin Goodman, Vermes was responsible for substantially revising Emil Schurer's three-volume work, The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ, His An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls, revised edition ( 2000 ), is a study of the collection at Qumran.

At the time of the article, the 17 year-old Belkin was 3 months into revising his game to include serve and volley technique.

It is argued that this makes more sense if Matthew was revising Mark, rather than the reverse.

For the next few years Joyce worked rapidly on the book, adding what would become chapters I. 1 and I. 6, and revising the already written segments to make them more lexically complex.

He also asked the General Assembly to appropriate funds for a one-time staff buyout ; to work with him in revising budgetary and human resources rules ; to grant the Secretary-General more managerial authority and flexibility ; to strengthen the Office of Internal Oversight Services ; and " to review all mandates older than five years to see whether the activities concerned are still genuinely needed or whether the resources assigned to them can be reallocated in response to new and emerging challenges ".

Lectures were held on topics ranging from Sufism to Synchronicity, and Bennett resumed work on the final volumes of his " personal whim ", the epic ' The Dramatic Universe ', which he had been working on for more than ten years, constantly writing, revising and re-writing.

Thus, the Keys have much more power than the Council, which performs the function of a revising chamber.

By this stage in his writing career Beckett was becoming more aware of the importance of revising his work in actual performance and so wrote to Grove Press about Happy Days on 18 May 1961 to advise them that, " I should prefer the text not to appear in any form before production and not in book form until I have seen some rehearsals in London.

After spending a few more weeks revising it, he typed the final draft in the Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon and sent copies to Lawrence and his producer and manager, John C. Wilson, with instructions to cable him with their reactions.

He was an advocate for a more mobile and offensive Navy, rather than the harbor defense function that much of it was then relegated to, and worked on revising naval rules and regulations.

The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act ( MSEHPA ) is a proposal by the Center for Law and the Public's Health, a joint venture of Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University, to aid America's state legislatures in revising their public health laws to, as proponents put it, more effectively control epidemics and respond to bioterrorism.

; Natural revision: while revising a preference ordering by a formula, all minimal models ( according to the preference ordering ) of are made more preferred by all other ones ; the original ordering of models is preserved when comparing two models that are not minimal models of ; this operator changes the ordering among models minimally while preserving the property that the models of the knowledge base after revising by are the minimal models of according to the preference ordering ;

According to the Times Deputy News Editor, Philip B. Corbett ( who is in charge of revising the manual ), there is a more current, online version of the manual that is used by Times staff, but this online manual is not available to the general public.

These policies included changes such as revising textbooks and changing school curricula to focus more on Taiwan's own history to the exclusion of China, and changing the names of institutions that contain " China " to " Taiwan ".

He met almost immediately with MacArthur and delivered to him a memorandum revising War Plan Rainbow 5 to authorize more aggressive action in the event of war, including offensive air strikes.

Lt. Col. Belinda Petersen, a spokeswoman for the Air Force Personnel Center, said the increase in deployment duration is an effort to “ improve predictability and stability for airmen and their families .” Peterson added, by revising the policy, airmen affected by the change will also “ ideally ” get more time at home.

However, most of this was unpublished, though it was later used in revising a translation in a more southern version of Swahili.

When the work of revising the liturgy in the twentieth century was undertaken it was with the understanding that it was touching the nerve-centre of the Anglican ethos, since Anglican identity takes a more intangible form, deeply dependent upon the influence and binding effect of its liturgical worship.

While Goemon ceased to appear on game consoles in 2001, Konami continued to release handheld games, and experimented with the series formula by revising Goemon's appearance, using futuristic settings, and employing a more serious tone.

He took up residence in northwestern China for more than 50 years since then, and devoted his time there to composing, collecting and revising western Chinese folk songs.

On a higher level, examples of sustainable business practices include: refurbishing used products ( e. g., tuning up lightly used commercial fitness equipment for resale ); revising production processes in order to eliminate waste ( such as using a more accurate template to cut out designs ); and choosing nontoxic raw materials and processes.

An update to the original version, FM2K allowed for a greater amount of expansion and extension than FM95, revising much of the original engine to allow more options while adding a menu-based system for clarity.

When beginning writing the short story ' the toy mill ' Karl Schroeder and David Nickle began by writing alternating sentences, whereas when English authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman wrote Good Omens they largely wrote separate plotlines and then collaborated much more heavily when revising the manuscript.

A large majority in Congress agreed with the need for reform, but both the Senate and the House of Representatives insisted on revising Taft's proposals so that they conformed more closely to the traditions of the federal judiciary.

Combe was revising the ninth edition of the Constitution of Man when he died at Moor Park, Farnham in August 1858.

After revising The Origin of Species as the definitive 6th edition, his major works on species culminated in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.