Revisions and revisions. We rewrite and we refine and we hammer the manuscript into shape. We’re getting close to a polished product–our first! A statement. As some might say, a stick in the mud. Let the mud swell :.the floodwaters rise.: and the current take us where it may. The road is long and wearisome but at the end (the end? What end?) rewarding.
:.SHELL swells.: