He wrote a big novel, but the overall message of the story came out all wrong.  HTRYN to the rescue!

. . . after going through Holly’s process, I knew . . . I had too many characters and too many unrelated stories. I realized that when I split my original story into its two halves, that I hadn’t split it correctly.

I decided to go into the Monastery and write out the outline of the story from scratch. I decided to keep only the basic events of the story. Basically ONE event, the event that I loved about this story. Nothing else was sacred.

And there was a massive implosion.

Huzzah! to the writer–and to those who read and take instruction from this post.