Complex sentence: Manning commented that the draft was "not horrible, not particularly" original ", but good in spots, lousy in others"; while not the review Ganino had hoped for, it was enough to keep the script in circulation.
Split into simpler sentences: Manning commented that the draft was "not horrible, not particularly" original ", but good in spots, lousy in others". While it was not the review Ganino had hoped for, it was enough to keep the script in circulation.