Post Memorial Day

I am rewritng the entire book which I had begun several years ago. I actually took historians timeline and paraphrased it, trying to turn it into a readable piece of work. I just rewrote ta story I like which has Alexander standing watching his father's army assemble to go to battle. I was trying to identify the different groups of Philip's army using Dodge's narrative. The problem is that when one writes it out the first time for later use it is still in the soundbite of the original author until I can rewrite it in my own words. So I just scotched the entire chapter realizing how like didactic it sounded. I had been sticking to Dodge too much. Notes to myself.