Status Updates From La letra escarlata

"The Custom House" as the intro is called felt like padding and it was. I just read that Hawthorne worried The Scarlet Letter was too short for publication. So, he tacked on 50+ pages to lengthen it. Writers if you don't know already are worriers. Their skill can mask insecurities. This is an example. Start reading after those extra pages if your new to this great novel.

for some reason i always thought the letter was like. a letter. like a note. not the actual alphabet letter. the more you know