[stylist] How to find your story - RE: question about a storyIwrote

[Chris Kuell]

Around 1923 or 1924, Ernest Hemingway was in Spain. His wife was coming to 
see him from Paris by train with their son. He asked her to bring the short 
story he was working on so he could finish it. For some unknown reason, 
Hadley, his wife, packed all of his writings into a valise and brought it 
with her. As you can probably guess, with a baby and luggage and train 
transfers to deal with, Hadley left the valise on the train and all of 
Hemingway's work was lost. At first, as you might imagine, old Ernie was 
bullshit. But later he said it was probably the best thing for him, because 
in recreating his work, it was much tighter and better.

My advice--rewrite your story.

chris