write over

“It was so exciting to have well-recorded drums to write over. It made me want to match that energy. I’d stand a bit taller when I was singing.”

The palimpsest effect is protective, as we mentally write over old loves and experiences with new ones so that pains get reduced, replaced and outnumbered.

“I’m more impressed with the fact that he’s been able to write over 200 short stories, and each one is really different from the others,” he says.

"I just wanted her to be free. If she wanted to have her friends over and write over the walls with pen, that was fine," she said.

When I read about Rosewood’s desire to “write over” the story of her eldest son’s birth, it made me feel defensive on my daughter’s behalf.