General Discussion

actions take years, or almost all, unless you get a summary judgment or something in that category.

I had cases in my nonprofit that had been in court 8+ years!! Puh-leeeze. I got a simple ordinance through the town council in a Northern NJ town and it took me six years! And then it went to a referendum. Whether a legal action is drawn out is no measure of the merits of the case and if you learned nothing else from Donald Trump, you should have learned that.

Re development, I'm speaking of taking the reader through your train of thought. The stuff you looked up on Wikipedia or recalled from your first-year writing course is nice 'n all, but isn't what writing professors actually do when they discuss development.

I'd give you a lesson in it but I get paid for that kind of work.