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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9135399" data-attributes="member: 42582">I write as a key part of my job - not fiction, but non-fiction prose. Rewriting and editing serves all sorts of purposes - clarity, elegance of style, tightness of structure. Sometimes an argument becomes tighter after weeks or months of work. Sometimes the argument was all there from the get-go, and the rewriting and editing serves only those other purposes.When it comes to writing fiction, I would think that some rewriting increases depth, but I would also expect that much of it serves those other purposes.When it comes to RPGing, I've seen a fair bit of setting material, and created it myself. I don't think much of it is very deep. I guess Glorantha is an exception, though I'm not as familiar with it as perhaps I should be.If by "depth" of setting is meant not profundity but volume of stuff that's been written which locates itself within the setting, then sure - it's a tautology that if less has been written there's less stuff.I took depth to mean profundity or significance or thematic weight or similar.</blockquote>