Scene from the Cutting Room Floor, Shipbuilder: The Shipyard

There were several scenes in the first draft of Shipbuilder that did not make it in the final cut. Many of these were scenes about Thomas Andrews. There are so many anecdotes about him, and I wanted to include them all. But the poor book was just too long. Even with many of theses scenes cut out, the book is still too long for the comfort of traditional publishers.

But! You lucky people still get to read those scenes, here and now, on this blog. They might be journal entries, like Saturday's p...