Closing a Manuscript

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Yesterday, I closed another manuscript, a completed first draft that will now sit for a few weeks before re-writing and editing begins. It took me longer than expected to complete this one, partly because I was basing my expectations on Flank Street, which took weeks, not months to write, and needed little in the way of re-writing. This third book of the Sydney Quartet was more challenging, especially the middle hundred pages.
It took a while to get the flow going in th...