The Risk of Infidelity Index

I am making good progress on the fourth draft of the new Calvino novel. It is cut and throw away, add a couple of new elements, polish, revise, amend, cut and throw away. It was Hemingway who said that a wastepaper basket was a writer’s best friend. That needs some updating: A writer’s best friend is the delete key. If you aren’t wearing the letters off that key then you are ignoring your best friend.