Ghost Pages

What happens to all those pages you cut from your writing?

Photo Courtesy of Alison Acheson

I’d been working on my fourth novel for over a year, had just passed the mark of one hundred pages, and was feeling quite positive. Time to put to test under other eyes.

My friend read, and we discussed: what was that brother character doing? Why was he in the story? What about the mother’s issues? So many questions. Cer…