For the project I'm currently working on, I'm taking some pieces from a failed manuscript dating back several months ago. I would simply rework the other one, if I hadn't already borrowed from it for a different story. I like to pick the skeleton clean whenever I've killed a story. Completing and subsequently abandoning a project never feels as much of a complete waste of time if there is something to be salvaged. And so I wander through the wasteland of words, looking for scraps to weave into a newer vision that is always better than the first.
So far, the hunting has been good.
With articles I often re-use or work on ideas I sometimes had 20 years ago - weave on.
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