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Putting into practice: 1
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This piece is an update of a scene that has appeared in several versions of a manuscript tentatively titled Wake the Dragon, something I’ve been working on for about two years now.
The manuscript kept becoming bogged down in scenes between scenes where nothing much would happen, so I set it aside. Each time I tried to fix the problems that appeared, it seemed the fix was worse than what had gone before it.
I must also confess that I never felt I was able to convey the setting with any confidence.
There is still hope that this manuscript will eventually be completed, but I fear that I will absolutely have to forego any editing during the process. However, even if I manage to finish things this time around, I doubt this exercise will be a part of the finished product.