#justwriterthings

[kungfuwaynewho]

When you're writing a scene and it doesn't advance the plot, and it's not revealing anything new about the character, and it's thematically redundant to an earlier scene that did both of those things, but you just...keep...writing...it...anyway...

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[sallycandance.livejournal.com]

Keep writing anyway! If it needs to be written, you'll have to write it. Remember that we writers are merely humble vessels for the unwritten stories.

Maybe you will cut the scene from the book you're working on in the end, and maybe you won't use it as is in another story - but it's worth something, and somehow, someday, you'll need either it or the experience of having written it. Trust me.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Oh, I never edit while I'm drafting. And if I do decide to cut something, if it's substantial enough (a full scene/sequence/chapter as opposed to just a line or two), I always save it in a separate document just in case. I just always get a kick out of knowing it's not great and will either need revision or excising while I'm literally still writing it, heh.

[sallycandance.livejournal.com]

^.^ Heh!