I’ve been working on a novel for a while now. Actually, what I’ve been doing...

I’ve been working on a novel for a while now.
Actually, what I’ve been doing is wrestling with a novel.
Last month, I sat and thought about what the novel needed and what I needed and how we could stop the wrestling and move forward.
The answer I came up with was that I had to claim this story.
And claiming it meant that I had to let a few trusted friends read it.
The only problem was that there wasn’t (even after months and months and months of work) anything all that coherent to show.
I d...