The best thing to do with a text unwilling to cooperate with its author, aside from jettison or burning, involves mooring or scuttling the beast until the text, when returned to, reads anew.
Often our greatest works have been left on shelves in dust for years, awaiting their master, and in time the novelist returns to the dusty material with freshness and can again begin the process of forgetting and remembering, realizing and creating.
Conor Robin Madigan