There’s a manuscript in every writer’s past—or present—that won’t stay quiet.

It may sit in a forgotten folder, buried on a hard drive with a working title that once set the writer’s heart on fire. It may be printed out and boxed in a closet, marked with notes and red ink, held together by binder clips and regret. It may have been abandoned mid-draft or rewritten ten times over, or restarted in half a dozen places. More…